Saturday, May 26, 2018

Gardens of the Big Bend: A New Botanical and Teaching Garden in North Florida

Gardens of the Big Bend: A New Botanical and Teaching Garden in North Florida A garden is a prepared space, usually outdoors, schedule for the display, nurturing and enjoyment of vegetation and other kinds of mother nature. Your garden can combine both natural and man-made materials. The most frequent form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has customarily been a much more general one. Zoos, which display outrageous animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens.[1][2] Western gardens are almost universally depending on vegetation, with garden often symbols of a shortened form of botanical garden. Some traditional types of eastern backyards, such as Zen backyards, use plants sparsely or not at all.

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File:Karlsruhe Orangerie garden panorama.jpg  Wikipedia
Backyards may exhibit structural advancements, sometimes called follies, including water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without fish), waterfalls or creeks, dry creek bed frames, statuary, arbors, trellises and more. Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants. Food-producing home gardens are distinguished from harvesting by their smaller level, more labor-intensive methods, and their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby rather than produce for sale). Blossom gardens incorporate plants of different heights, colors, construction, and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses.

Clone House

Clone House
Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining your garden. This kind of work is done by an amateur or professional gardener. A gardener may additionally work in a non-garden setting, such as a park, a roadside bar, or other public space. Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with landscape architects maintaining specialize in design for general population and corporate clients.

Garden View Tea Room

Garden View Tea Room
Yard design is the creation of plans for the layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Backyards may be designed by garden owners themselves, or by professionals. Professional garden designers tend to learn in principles of design and horticulture, and have an understanding and experience of using plants. Several professional garden designers are also landscape architects, a more formal level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state permit.

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Open window
Aspects of garden design include the layout of hard landscape, such as routes, rockeries, walls, water features, sitting areas and decking, as well as the plants themselves, with concern for their horticultural requirements, their season-to-season appearance, life expectancy, growth habit, size, rate of growth, and blends with other plants and landscape features. Consideration is also given to the maintenance needs of the garden, including the time or funds available for regular maintenance, which can affect the options of plants regarding speed of growth, spreading or self-seeding of the plants, whether twelve-monthly or perennial, and bloom-time, and many other characteristics. Garden design can be roughly divided into two groups, formal and naturalistic gardens.[6]The most important consideration in a garden design is, how a garden will be used, followed closely by the desired stylistic genres, and the way the garden space will hook up to the property or other buildings in the surrounding areas. All of these factors are subject to the limitations of the budget. Budget limitations can be addressed by a less complicated garden style with fewer plants and less costly hardscape materials, seeds alternatively than sod for yards, and plants that develop quickly; alternatively, garden owners might choose to create their garden with time, area by area.
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