What kind of gardener are you? Do you shop for plants with a plan in mind, or do you load up whatever takes your fancy at the moment?
Do you enjoy drawing plans for your dream landscape? Do you create watercolor landscapes for each part of your property? Do you copy pictures from online nurseries to include in your plans? Do your house and outdoor family areas show prominently in your plans, or are the planting areas more important to your plans?
If you prefer a more relaxed, random type of planting, do you study the plant catalogs or just look at the pretty pictures and imagine the flowers or plants in place? Do you go to the plant or garden shop with colors, sizes, or greenery in mind, or do you wander through and load pots onto your garden trolley till it’s full of dizzying color, luscious scents, and a hundred shades of green? Do you look to your landscape team at Custom Acres about what will best grow on your property?
How does your garden grow?
Everyone has their own special way of choosing plants and trees for their landscapes, shopping for seasonal plants, and making plans (or no plans) to create a space that is uniquely yours. Is one way of planting more right than another? Well, yes. What works for you is the right thing for you.
Florida gives you enormous freedom in planning (or not planning) your garden and landscape. The growing season for edible plants is long if you are interested in vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Your raised planting boxes may yield more than one crop during the planting season.
Flowers and other ornamental plants usually do well in spring and fall, with warm weather and plenty of rain. However, during the summer, you might find you want to plant some tropical plants that need a lot of water since it rains or storms almost every day. Then, as hurricane season creeps up on us, you have time to make plans and move smaller or potted plants to a safe area of your home or garage when a warning is given.
Pots or beds?
Do you put new plants in pots to start them? What about seeds? Do you plan for most of your plants to stay in pots? Or do they eventually get planted in the ground?
The answers are as varied and as numerous as there are plants and gardeners. People who rent might be more willing to move plants, bushes, and trees from one pot to the next size bigger. What is your favorite way to make a garden: keep it mobile in pots and planters, or make a permanent impression on the landscape with trees, bedding, and shrubs planted directly into the soil?
What about kitchen gardens? Many options are available to grow plants in temporary or non-permanent locations and still have a successful garden. For example, pots, planters, hydroponic systems, raised boxes, window boxes, fence hanging planter boxes, brick planters that can easily be taken apart, and even recycled tires painted bright colors and stacked to make a terraced area.
What does your garden grow?
When most people think about home landscaping, they probably think of that green carpet of grass that everyone seems to want. However, they also think about beds of flowers, displays of ornamental plants, trees that lift their limbs to the sky, and shrubs and bushes that cling to the earth.
People want to be surrounded by beauty in all its forms. For most of us, collecting art on a large scale is out of the question, but purchases of plants can be spread out over a growing season. Each plant has a perfect time for planting, and budgeting for plants can be more realistic than trying to save to purchase an unknown Raphael or even a cartoon cell from a favorite Saturday morning program.
Plants provide visual beauty and variety. They can surprise you with random colors or sudden bursts of growth. Plants can be demanding or laid back, just like many other pursuits that humans undertake.
Working with a great landscaping company can certainly help fulfill your gardening and landscaping dreams. Custom Acres has the experience, licensing, and talent to help you create your perfect patch of ground, personally customized to fit your tastes and requirements. Your landscape. Your way. That sounds amazing!