Tips for Managing Your Garden's Size

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Tips for Managing Your Garden's Size
Hi, this is Yolanda VanDeen on behalf of Expert Village. So how big do I really want my garden to be? That's the question. It's like throwing a party again... how big do you want your party to be? Do want to have a real small formal affair and just invite 10 people over? Or do you want to have a big summer bash and invite 100 people over? That's the kind of the way you decide on your garden, too. Do you want to have a big party, or do you want to have just a small get-together? It's up to you, because remember, it is your garden party. Anything you decide goes! So, either if you have a small area and don't have a lot of room to garden... if you have a small area, maybe even one foot by one foot, you have enough area to garden. When selecting plants, pick small little plants, like a perfect a succulent garden or a cactus garden. Or have just a lot of little flower bulbs in there, crocus and daffodils, or maybe going into a few lilies in the summer and a few calla lilies. You don't need a lot of area to garden. Or if you have an anchor, you can plan ahead and just set different gardens all through your garden: moon garden, red garden, tropical garden. That way you can have anything you want in your yard. I think the key is starting out small and not getting overwhelmed, and taking it a step at a time. It's like throwing a party. A little bit of planning goes a long way. In the next segment, we'll talk about the easiest gardens to maintain.

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Expert: Yolanda Vanveen is the owner of vanveenbulbs.com, selling flower bulbs on the internet for nearly twenty years. She represented the U.S.A. at the 2006 Indigenous Bulb Society Symposium in South Africa Read More