How to Plan Your Garden for Summer 2026
Summer Garden Ideas
With any garden to keep it looking bright, cheerful and interesting it has to be healthy, not just for you but the plants as well. Look back on last year and ask yourself if the garden gave you something to smile about. It was hard keeping plants looking good with the hot weather, even the watering didn’t seem to work and many people felt disappointed with their displays, probably blaming climate change.
Garden Planning
But, with careful garden planning we can avoid those actual problems, and give you a garden that will flourish year after year. Many a time I have seen plants struggle in the wrong position, conditions they are not suitable for, soil that is the opposite of what they need, just watering won’t keep them going. There is a comment used by many gardeners in the media ‘ right plant right place’ and although not entirely true a Horticulturist looks at ‘ Right Plant Right Conditions ‘
The soil is a vital ingredient in all gardens, the roots of plants differ from one to the other, fibrous, tap, corms,tubers, fine, thick, surface roots each plant is different, and thats because each plants needs are different.
Sustainable Eco-Friendly Urban Re-Wilding Controlled Living Spaces Meadow Style Wellbeing
There are so many variants in garden themes and plans that are thrown at us via the media, TV experts and flower shows that its hard to think logically what will fit neatly into your garden, help the planet, give you space and allow you to manage it.
Yes we all want our gardens to be sustainable, eco-friendly and controlled enough in its outlay for us to manage effectively. In nearly all of these various idaes its all down to the choice of the plants. They create the colour, the interest, the food for the wildlife and most importantly they have a big say in the bio diversity of the garden area.
So lets break it down. If you want to be sustainable and eco friendly then use plants that are evergreen so they take pollutants from the air all year round, the management is minimal as they are often neatly shaped plants or bushy so making them sustainable, a controlled environment.
It is often said about how the garden can relieve stress, anxiety and become a relaxing escape from life in general. To create these in any garden the use of therapeutic colours, plants with fragrance and good to feel, water either by sound or visually with the addition of the wildlife which will enjoy it is all about the plants, the shapes and the atmosphere as you walk through. But, what we have to remember is that each of these gardens will give a different feel to different people, not everyone is comfortable with the deep colours and dusky image they give, these gardens are for you, yes you, you are an individual in your own right so let your garden reflect that and make you feel good not only when in there but the attraction to go there in the first place, regardless of the season because the feeling will be different for each one.
In most homes there are four main areas the kichen, living room,bedroom and bathroom, the garden is your fifth room lets make it usable.
