Let your imagination be your guide and extend your home décor into the great outdoors.
If you are reading this column, it’s likely you have been spending the last few months weeding, planting, watering and nurturing your garden beds and veggie patches. You’ve pruned those shrubs, trimmed your trees and are starting to enjoy the fruits of your labor. But now it’s time to accessorize your outdoor space and create a complete garden environment that is uniquely yours.
With a few additional accents or fixtures, you can create a garden ambiance perfect for sharing with family and friends or even on your own when you want some “me time.”
This environment will continue to reflect the atmosphere you’ve created with your plants. It all depends on the elements you add to it. You can go for Zen, whimsical, rustic charm, “glam garden” or fabulously ornate. Let your imagination be your guide and extend your home décor into the great outdoors.
Here are a few ideas to help get you started.
Splashy or Subtle Water Features
Water is the music of nature. It can be trickled over stones, cascaded from great heights to crash on rocks or meander through a path to a pool of koi and hardy water lilies. The addition of a water feature in your yard can be soothing and soulful or wild and exciting.
On the Border
A sunny perennial border of flowers can be formal or informal, square, rectangular or round. With strategic placement and selection, plants can produce a parade of color straight through to fall.
Natural Pathways
Decorative bark, pebbles and pavers will create movement and flow through your garden without disrupting your carefully planted flowers and grasses.
Garden Accents
Decorative birdbaths and hummingbird feeders to draw your winged friends, benches to rest on while enjoying your plants and flowers, and windchimes that dance and sing in the breeze can all augment your garden.
Let There be Light
The right lighting can transform your garden at night. You could use a combination of spotlights, uplights and string lights to create a magical atmosphere.
Add a Theme
Theme gardens are a great way to create an environment that makes you feel like you are a world away. A Japanese garden, including elements of Zen or Feng Shui, can infuse your garden with a simple elegance, while ornate fountains and statues can give you a taste of Renaissance Italy.
At Warner’s Nursery, we specialize in creating environments. It is our hope that everyone gets a chance to connect with nature this season in the beauty of their backyard, where a garden’s ambiance can be inspiring, relaxing and enjoyable.
Indulge yourself and create an environment that can take away the worries of the day and be shared with your friends and family. Happy gardening! FBN
By Misti Warner-Andersen
Misti Warner-Andersen is the manager of Warner’s Nursery & Landscape Co., located at 1101 E. Butler Ave. in Flagstaff. To contact Warner’s Nursery, call 928-774-1983.