Summer garden design 2022
Forget the stress of everyday life, on warm evenings relax and end the day with a cool drink and meanwhile enjoy the scent of flowers – and all this in your own garden. How does that sound? Especially in the summer months, a garden is pure pleasure. To help you properly care for, use and enjoy your green oasis in the summer, we reveal some important tips.
Vegetable garden or flowering meadow?
Depending on what you expect from a garden and how you want to use it, you will design it and invest time in its maintenance accordingly. If you want to grow fruits and vegetables, you will have to spend more time on it than if you want to use your garden as a place to relax. It will cost you less effort. Therefore, it is important to think in advance how much time you can invest in care.
A magnificent ornamental garden
To best prepare the garden for summer, proper plant selection is critical to achieving beautiful blooms during the dry months. Drought-tolerant and sun-loving plants, such as prairie garden or rock garden plants, are a good choice to ensure a permanently beautiful planting. Especially perennials such as purple coneflower, sage, verbena or bearded iris cope very well with drought and heat. Focus on perennial beds and less on alternating plants to reduce the effort and not have to change your plantings seasonally (usually early summer and fall).
Suitable plants for your ornamental garden
- Small leaves: Less evaporation
- Hairy leaves: Less desiccation
- Silver gray foliage: it reflects light and thus heats up less
- Succulents: they store moisture in their leaves
Ornamental gardens can generally be well prepared for a dry summer. Just cover the ground with mulch. The applied layer prevents evaporation and thus drying. As an alternative, gravel can also be used. It is preferred by many garden owners in terms of appearance and smell.
A summer kitchen garden
Summertime means it’s smoothie time again. If you prefer to make your smoothies fresh, you can plant many delicious fruits and vegetables in your garden. If you find a few empty spots in your vegetable patch or orchard even just before the start of summer, you can take the opportunity to fill in the empty spaces with some plants. Tomatoes, zucchini, beet, cucumbers, as well as melons can still be planted in June. Peach or almond trees, as well as berry bushes are also good for this purpose.
For sustainable planting, regularly hoe and loosen the crusted soil of your vegetable garden. Thus, during heavy rain showers, the precious wet does not run off, but seeps into the loosened soil and benefits the vegetables. It also reduces evaporation of water stored in deeper layers. Working the soil additionally brings air to the plant roots and releases nutrients.
Soil preparation, Planting time & Watering
Already the soil can be prepared for the summer through an important aspect: humus. Especially a very sandy soil should be enriched with it. This is because soil rich in humus stores much more water and thus avoids drying out and damaging the plants. The timing of planting is also an important component to a beautiful, sustainable garden. Spring and late summer is a good time to plant evergreen plants. Winter hardy plants you put in the fall.
Another aspect to master during the summer months is ensuring that irrigation is provided as needed. Smaller gardens can be watered alone in the morning. By the evening, the water dries again, and besides, the soil does not receive a temperature shock, because it has not yet heated up very much. In any case, you should water their garden abundantly and extensively to avoid drying. However, if you are too short on time to do this, it would be worth considering adding an irrigation system to the garden. Smart irrigation systems can adjust watering times accordingly according to real-time weather data and automatically irrigate when needed. This saves time and also protects the environment.
If you are building a new garden, consider installing a cistern. A cistern is a large, underground rain barrel that is fed by rainwater. On average, 4,000 liters of water can be collected in a cistern. You can then use this water to water your garden in the summer.
Garden use ideas
Draw inner strength outside
Your garden should inspire you to unroll your yoga mat and meditate in this quiet place, forgetting all the stress of everyday life.
Outdoor cooking
Just fire up the grill and let a few (vegan) sausages sizzle on it while you take in the beautiful ambience of the garden. Invite a few friends and off goes the barbecue!
The garden as a home office
A nice and above all short way to work. Flowers, sun and fresh air as a working environment – a good balance to the normal office environment.
Do sport
Simply move your home workout outside, enjoy nature and switch off your mind.
We hope we’ve been able to give you enough tips so that you can make your garden practical, sustainable, thriving and beautiful this summer. Enjoy your magnificent oasis of relaxation!
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