I will bet the thing you love most about your garden is hearing people saying how awesome it is. I do. It does something for me when when a guest tells me they want to see my garden to see what I have done. Getting to that point does not have to be a hit, miss affair. It doesn't happen by accident.
Getting it right takes a little thinking. Not something I do regularly. All you need is to know the meaning of three gardening terms to point you in the right direction. I'll just highlight them quickly before I show you where they fit.
You'll remember in a previous post I talked about your garden having a destination and a view. What we want to talk about here is the view and its two friends, garden features and garden focal points.
If you get these three right, you will be turning heads.
Lets start with Features.
A simple explanation of features is that it is something in your garden you placed there or that occurred naturally. It can be a footpath, bench, rock, ornamental tree or even something in the architecture of your house. Maybe you have a bright red front door or a stained-glass window. Not a lot of that in my garden.
A Wiki list of Garden features
In your garden your focal point is the thing that grabs your attention. The focal point is sometimes a feature that is very interesting on its own, or features grouped together.
If the feature in your garden is not exciting enough to be a focal point on its own, you can decorate it a little.
Use pot plants, an old ladder, a watering can, anything working for you.
The idea of the focal point in your garden is to lead the visitors eyes and attention in a direction or away from something.
In my tiny garden I have two focal points. One as you come out of the door into the garden. The second one to the left in the north east corner. I'm still constructing that one.
The basic idea is that the first focal point grabs your attention as you come out of the door and your eyes will follow the plants and wall to the second bigger grander focal point in the Northeast corner. Keeping your focus away from the not so interesting building to your left.
Some great focal point ideas by BobbyK
This creates the view of your garden.
In small gardens you have to be careful not to overdo it. In larger gardens you can have more than one view. Hide features behind plants or screens or anything subtle you can come up with. When the visitor moves to a different position, the view changes. You can even ad more destinations, each with its own view, if the garden is large enough.
That is all from my tiny garden then. Thank you for enjoying my post. Your upvote and share is truly appreciated.