If a garden is getting old, redesigning the garden will give it a new lease of life. A systematic approach ensures that your creative ideas come together to form a harmonious arrangement of plants and design components. Find out here how you can skillfully transform your garden.
How to redesign a garden?
To redesign a garden, you should first clean up and remove weeds. Then let your creativity run wild, create planting and floor plans and buy young plants in April. Start preparing in the fall and plan retreats for beneficial insects.
Creating order and planning purposefully - this is how it works
Before you redesign your garden, we recommend a major cleaning. Get rid of all the legacy issues that have been a thorn in your side for a long time. This includes work such as clearing dead trees, pulling weeds, mowing the lawn and pruning bushes, hedges and trees. A clean, tidy area reveals all the potential for a successful garden redesign.
Then take a seat in the middle of the garden and let your ideas flow. As a suggestion, we have put together popular ideas for a garden redesign for you:
- Easy-care garden with robust perennials and evergreen ground cover instead of demanding lawn
- Farm garden with colorful mixed culture of colorful flowers and crunchy vegetable plants
- Redesign the garden according to Feng Shui to create a spiritual refuge
- Japanese garden, as a stylish interpretation of Asian garden art with stones and gravel
Once the decision has been made, create a true-to-scale plan drawing. Not only note the size of the individual beds, but also the condition of the soil and the lighting conditions. This automatically creates a detailed planting plan that gives concrete shape to your gardening dreams.
Start garden redesign – the starting signal will be given in April
Fall and winter are the ideal time for preparation and planning work. After clearing up in the fall, you can prepare the garden soil by incorporating 3 to 5 liters of compost per square meter. During the peaceful winter time, you can devote yourself to the floor plan and planting plan. You can often get building materials, garden furniture and decorative items at bargain prices in winter.
When winter finally says goodbye in April, garden centers and tree nurseries have a large selection of young plants available. The window remains open until October to pave paths, build a new gazebo and create the pond. To ensure everything runs smoothly, please coordinate construction work and planting times. We have summarized the most important dates for you here:
- Sowing lawns: April and May or in September
- Planting time for perennials and trees in containers: throughout the entire growing season
- Planting time for bare-root shrubs and trees: October to March
If you are redesigning your garden, you can noticeably reduce the burden on your budget by growing plants yourself. So sow flowers, perennials and vegetables on the windowsill from February in order to plant out the young plants from April/May.
Tip
In every garden redesign, the ecologically oriented gardener reserves niches and corners as retreats for beneficial insects. An upside down flower pot filled with wood shavings provides a safe home for insects. A cat-proof hedgehog house helps the cute quill bear through the winter. Mixed flowering hedges bear fruit in winter, which serves as a vital source of food for birds.
