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Garden Rooms - Finding and Creating Them

Garden rooms can be a fun addition to your flower garden adventures. It definitely gives you an opportunity to try different things in one yard. So just what are garden rooms and how do you go about creating them?

A garden room is much like any kind of room inside your home. The whole of your house has been broken up into rooms with different functions. You do the same outside in your landscaping. Just breakup the landscaping into different rooms. The garden rooms will differentiate from the rest of your gardening by the theme or function of the room.

If you look around your yard, you just might find that it lends itself readily to making garden rooms. Perhaps one side of the house has an area that is filled with sunshine and is the center of the children's play time. But on the other side of your house, it is deeply overshadowed by big mature trees on both your lot and your neighbor's lot. And he is not going to cut those trees no matter what.

Well, just treat the two areas as garden rooms. Take the sunny area, add more items such as a jungle gym or swing set or even a sandbox, surround it with bright sun-loving flowers in flowerbeds and fill it in with a lawn that will take the beating children playing can give it.

Take the shaded area on the other side of the house and turn it into cozy private adults' area. Add in lots of shade loving plants (hey, a spot for a shade garden), some wind chimes or a water fountain for soothing sounds and some very elegant comfortable adult furniture. Now that's the place to spend a summer afternoon nestled deep in the tree shadows and relaxing while the children wear themselves out hard at play in their garden room. Now you can thank that neighbor for those big old trees he won't cut and the shade they cast.

You might find when you think of dividing your landscaping into garden rooms that it's not just a matter of this area gets lots of sun and that one gets lots of shade. How about a low spot where all the rain runs down to that stays soggy? Turn it into a rain water garden with plants that love damp soils. Just look around and see if your yard has factors that logically can divide it into garden rooms.

And what if you don't have any such logical landscaping divisions? Well, use trees, shrubs and other plantings to divide your yard up. Or use walls, fences and arbors to create separate garden rooms. You are only limited by your imagination.

In other articles we will write about different themes for garden rooms. Like a Mexican feel? How about French country? These and other themes can be created in your garden room.

© 2006, Sandra Dinkins-Wilson

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