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How To Unmask Your Garden Style and Be a Winner!
How to unmask your garden style is something that I have been looking at over the years. Have you ever wondered why you like one style of gardening more than another? I was curious too, then I got it! In this article we will explore how to unmask your garden style and be a winner.
How to unmask your garden style is guided by your personality, who would have know this?
At first, I hadn’t linked our personalities and why certain garden styles makes us happy.
I began to recognise each client liked different elements in their gardens. certain clients liked formal styles whilst others liked informal styles, and it didn’t stop there.
Various clients like sculpture and features in their garden whilst others just enjoyed the plants and flowers. In the same way, the levels of details also varied. There is client who have more plants than others in their borders.
I then began to be more conscious of the home interior and the outside garden. Not all gardens reflected the rooms in the house, and I wondered why?
Two things struck me. We have more confidence putting furniture and fabrics together, and our personality shines. So how does this relate on how to unmask your garden style you may be wondering?
How to unmask your garden style, my conclusion.
Unless you grew up gardening, lived in a house with a garden as a child or your grandparents loved gardening. It is more likely anything you have done in your garden has been by trial or error. Have you been going along with the flow of influences that pop up in front of your eyes?
The classic example being, visiting a garden centre being struck by a delightful looking plant. Like a child in a candy store, you cannot resist buying a plant. Arriving home then pondering and wondering where you can plant it!
This is the big mistake!
After buying your plant, what happens next, you pop it in the ground wherever there is a gap. This is a big mistake, as a plant in the wrong place is likely to fail. Along with your disappointment when you plant disappears among the other plants.
Two things have happened which rarely happen with your interior furnishings. Firstly, going on impulse with lack of either knowledge or confidence. Secondly is not recognising that you keep doing this time and time again. That is buying on impulse and not cross referencing what your style is.
This leads you to the point being unfulfilled by your gardening efforts. The knock-on effect is a downward spiral of telling yourself you are no good at gardening. With a little more understanding you can unmask your gardening style.
Let’s go back inside your home for a minute.
Let’s take a lamp for example. You will know within seconds if it will work in the room. You might admire it and enjoy it in the shop but that doesn’t mean you are going to buy it. This is part of your personality at play. You know your house is fully furnished and you know it does not require any added items.
So, what happens when we go to a garden centre or nursery? We are enchanted by delightful colours, fragrances, shapes, or the way a plant feels. We become someone different, a little out of control especially, if you are a lover of plants!
Our resistances plummets to almost zero, our checks and controls are thrown to the wind. Then another part of our personality kicks in, let’s call it the ‘magpie awakens!’
Quietening the magpie.
I don’t want to dampen your enthusiasm, at this stage far from it. I do want you to be more conscious when you are surrounded by plants especially those which are for sale!
Feel free to enthuse, admire and enjoy a new plant you come across then stop, listen, and think!
- Does this fit my style?
- Is this plant formal or informal?
- Does the colour fit with my scheme?
- Do I have a place where it can thrive and work well with its companion plants in my garden border?
By answering these questions, you will know if this is a plant that is coming home. Or if it’s best to stay at the nursery for someone to enjoy.
You'll be amazed when you use the checker!
This is a great checker to help you know if you have the right plant for the right place. Does it really work for you or whether your magpie awakened for a brief moment!
When you begin to apply these checks, you begin to find your confidence. Which brings more of your personality out and as this increases your style will change and evolve. The more you enjoy the process and your garden, the more you will also lift your mental health and well-being. It is a fact that the more you garden the happier you become. I certainly feel it is connected to your garden. personality and how this can be expressed by the way
How to unmask your garden style is part of a series of articles from Taking Your Garden to The Next Level. If you enjoyed this why not click the link and take your garden to the next level.
Happy gardening, Kristian
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- Plants for a South Facing Garden
- Plants to a North Facing Garden
- What plants to grow on a clay soil
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One Response
I hadn’t thought about how I look at my garden before.