The preplanned garden is more than a space filler. Consider your intentions for your garden, whether it is to be a place for quiet reflection, a site for spirited gatherings with others or a romantic retreat. But some of us, despite knowing what we want our garden to look like, may not have the time or even the inclination to coordinate plantings according to height, bloom time, complementary color, or consider the overall energy of what you're trying to accomplish.
Good news! Several companies have handled the logistics of time; packaging preplanned gardening options with various themes and coordinating seasons. These are powerful ways to integrate your desires by "seeing" an example in picture beforehand.
Michigan Bulb Co is one of my old reliables and here is what their gardens bring to your outdoor space:
- The Foolproof Perennial Garden boosts your feelings of success. It will thrive year after year with minimal care
- The Hot Spot Garden transforms a seemingly barren space into a fertile patch of height and hue, symbolizing optimism and rising above less than promising circumstances
- The Red Perennial Collection adds passion to your garden with an array of long-blooming plants in shades crimson, scarlet and pure red.
- The 3-Season Cutting Garden supplies eleven types of flowers for making bouquets and brings a soft symphony into the home as you can bring a bit of your garden indoors.
Direct Gardening offers similar preplanned gardens that you can choose in order to:
- attract butterflies of hummingbirds - life affirming and delightful
- consistently deliver color in your chosen seasons - signifying renewal
- add color to shady areas - thus adding light and life in a private part of your garden and secret self
- fill your outdoor space with bursting fragrance - aroma is sensual and harmonizing
- replicate a native prairie - bring forth a sense of ancestry and history
- have color all year 'round with a blend of ornamental grasses - a sense of flow and wellness
Think about your intention and keep in mind that you can mix and match where to place the plants. Actually, I've never had a preplanned garden that looks like the picture they show, but that is part of the fun. Even when we plan things rarely turn out as we think.
Well, it is like life actually, natures "accidents" make your garden as individual as you.
Regardless, allow your preplanned garden to be a shortcut to your ultimate goal of creating a space that speaks both to you and for you.
