If you have a garden in your home, that might be your favorite place to rest and spend time being at peace with nature. Gardens not just make a place beautiful but also purify the air around and serve as mini carbon sinks. The more greenery we have around us, the better it is for the planet and our health.
14 Budget-friendly ways to beautify your garden
1. Use coconut shells as decorations
Coconut water is everyone’s favorite, but what you do with the shell after finishing the water is also important. One idea is to use them as tree hangings decorated with jute ropes and filled with colorful flowers to beautify the garden.
2. Use waste material to make attractive pieces of art
Waste to Craft is the new way of life, you too can adopt it by making attractive bottles with lights and decorations and use them to enhance the vibrancy of the garden. Plastic bottles or cans can be used for this purpose.
3. Decorate the garden entrances
Decorating the garden entrance with beautiful green leafy plants can be the best way to welcome any guest. Use green creeper, or creeper roses available at the florist shop to do this.
4. Add furniture
Adding furniture to the garden makes it a homely and comfortable place. Appropriate furniture can not only enhance the beauty of the garden but also rejoice the person sitting there. Wooden furniture is best, but one is free to experiment with other materials as well.
5. Keep it simple
Over doing can go against the whole purpose, keep the decorations in the garden simple and calming. It shouldn’t be too fancy or artificial, but rather should be an integral part of the garden itself.
6. Use lighting
Using lights in the garden is an amazing way to enhance its beauty. It looks beautiful, especially at night. Keep the lights golden or silver so that it captures the energy of the atmosphere peacefully.
7. Put the flowers in an order
Keeping flowers in an order is important to make the garden look clean and organized. It’s not important that the order is specific but, you should try mixing flowers and keep alternate rows of vibrant and green plants or plant colorful flowers where there are trees.
8. Decorate the bases
Experiment with the vase in your garden. Color them or use different materials to make them. One can also use clay to decorate the vase and color them beautifully. These tiny details can enhance the garden in a few moments.
9. Create a mini fountain
A mini fountain does not need much investment and can even be made at home. Use an earthen pot or an open utensil to create the fountain, add the pipes and connect them with the source of water, your fountain is ready. This can also be used for feeding the birds that visit the garden.
10. Create sound effects with water
If you have time and want to explore more ways to enhance the garden and make it more peaceful, adding sounds is the best way. Use utensils with particular sounds and create a fountain in them.
11. Feel free to be creative
There is no rulebook to decorate the beautiful green space in the house, you are free to use your creative mind and lend it whatever color, design or theme you feel is the best. It might be something close to the heart or anything you feel is the most peaceful.
12. Control weeds
Decorating the garden without keeping it clean will be of no use as the insects will never let you enjoy the peace. Hence, make sure the plants and grasses are trimmed and free from weeds. Timely uses of liquid spray to prevent microorganisms can also be considered.
13. Plant edible herbs and colorful flowers
A garden should be a place everyone likes to come, from kids to elder family members. Plant edible fruits or edible herbs in the garden so that it keeps your grandmother happy, by adding colorful flowers kids will also be happy and like to spend time outdoors.
14. Add a theme
This is a completely optional step, as the above steps will already make the place mesmerizing. You can choose any theme that you like and use that as a meter to go about the decorations. If the theme is Unicorn the lightning can be of different colors, vases can be painted in pastel and the flowers are already colorful to go with it.
Gardens should be a must in an urban household, where there are less green spaces. This is also a great initiative to make the surrounding greener and healthier. With the above steps your garden can become your favorite picnic spot and creative place.