Specialty Gardening

Not enough land for your dream garden? Don’t be too sure. Ever think about vertical planting? Or perhaps a little creative container gardening suits your style. It seems yards are getting smaller and smaller in many areas, yet gardening is becoming an ever more popular hobby. Even functional retaining walls can contain space thrifty gardens.

Luckily, plants care about proper soil, good nutrients, temperature, lighting and drainage. They really don’t care exactly what they are planted in, or the methods used to meet their needs. You can create a really striking one-of-a-kind landscape without much money by thinking outside the box when garden planning.

Vertical gardening can involve the use of light framing, twine, wire, netting, or even hanging baskets installed at a few different levels. Twining plants around a simple post can give you several feet of fruits, herbs, vegetables, or flowers in the area of a foot or two. Arched trellis groupings can make a dramatic statement and greatly increase the planting areas in a small space. And even a scrub bush or small tree might be used to support and train planting arrangements for a few seasons. Hide the plain with some pretty!

Container gardening is just what it sounds like. Raising plants in containers rather than the traditional plot of ground. You can group several plants in one container, and several containers together to make modular gardens that are easier to move and arrange as plants and seasons change.

Raised bed and square foot gardening are similar in that several plants are placed in a confined area of soil, usually raised or terraced slightly so that many more plants can happily occupy a smaller area. Some back to basic folks even grow by simply slitting an opening in bags of soil they bought at a landscaping store and stacking them. They plant the seeds and water right into the bag after making drain holes.

Water gardening evokes a stress-chasing, relaxing atmosphere. This elaborate type of landscaping can liven up dull, tired yards. Water gardens can include fish and other small creatures, or just plants. Some folks like to try to grow plants of species that normally don’t grow easily in their type of climate. Tropical plants are especially good with landscaped water features.

You can always fall back on the good old standby... the greenhouse! Or maybe indoor gardening, perhaps with a hydroponic garden. Start looking around with your gardening and landscaping projects in mind and use your imagination to see what you and others have lying around that you can use to make your own unique specialty garden.

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