Your Back Yard! A Place Of Peace And Tranquility

                      YOUR BACKYARD!  A PLACE OF PEACE AND TRANQUILITY

Any portion of a garden can become a place of peace and repose, and I think it is well worth making at least a spot in the garden a place of quiet and reflection. Better yet, creating a theme garden dedicated to a feeling of calm and relaxed enjoyment. Better yet, creating a theme garden dedicated to a feeling of calm and relaxed enjoyment. Many of the accouterments in making this type of retreat would depend on what the gardener finds personally peace invoking, but there are certain aspects of a garden generally found to be important to a calm and peaceful feeling in an outdoor space.

 A stronger color, so long as the palette was minimal and monochrome, could be peaceful and harmonious to your eye if that color gives you pleasure. The interplay of various green and green/white variegated plants with either white flowers or a soft pink is as soothing as a garden can be anywhere

 A moon garden- planted to be especially beautiful at night is peaceful both night and day. Perhaps grassy walks, or light gray gravel, are peaceful colors to you. If in a hot climate, perhaps you want strong areas of shade, but think of somehow enclosing your retreat from the rest of the garden and the world.

PLAN YOUR GARDEN IN A QUIET PLACE

Plan what sort of destination this is for your garden. Just to sit quietly and listen to your own thoughts? a place for reading, for early morning tea? How do you picture this garden for your time and place of serenity? An evening open view of a sunset or water? An afternoon respite from the the sun in a cool shady nook? Imagine the feeling and create the seating, pathways, and shelters accordingly. Home garden design ideas and tips for creating your own landscape filled with annuals,perennials,bulbs,shrubs,and trees. 

 Planning and Designing a Mystical Garden. An Online Garden Design to build a Mystical Garden for Reflection - Simple and Peaceful, a place to have an Adventure into your Inner Self. The following garden design initiative provides you with all the tools necessary so that you can plan and design a Mystical Garden. You may also design a flower garden or a fairy garden around the concept.  Remember, the objective of a mystical garden is to reconnect to your Inner Self, bridge the conscious with the unconscious through meditation and reflection. Or might you prefer a garden that is exotic , that transports you to another time or place?. Perhaps you are looking to create a garden that is whimsical , with elements that make it a world unto itself?. Simply combine what calms you: colors, times of day, scents, and then you have a start to your plant list and hardscape materials.

 Situation There is something about enclosure that gives one the actual quiet, muffling the outside world and shielding your senses from its demands. Even if busy traffic is just outside, plant materials and sheltering fences can remove you from its sight and some of the sound. Trees, especially can provide dappled light and a place to welcome birdsong, and vines draping the fences.

 My own preference is for pruning the trees high or using decorative smaller species, and having sunshine filter through softly. Simplicity Keeping the plantings simple in color scheme and using an edited number of contrasting plants will keep things from feeling too distracted. Swathes of large leaved plants, a few types of shrubs, and flowers in groups as ornamentation; or conversely in such large groupings that the eye settles upon the form of the planting, not so much on spotty little dots of competing interest. This soft, vibrant green plant is truly like no other capable of surviving the harshest of conditions, it is very easy to grow and maintain, and lasts all year long! It is simply the most beautiful evergreen groundcover. The colorful tapestry of drought tolerant plants provides year-round appeal while warm flagstone walkways tie it together