10 Small Flower Garden Ideas To Build A Serene Backyard Retreat

Flower garden  is probably the most beautiful of all garden types. It is cheaper and easy to maintain. And you don’t need a big space for this. Find out on this article and start planting your first flower garden.

Stress can take toll on the body as well as the mind and numerous studies have been conducted to confirm this fact.In a busy city life, caught midst the hustle and bustle of daily chores, you need a relaxation corner, close to your heart, where you can go to rest, unwind and connect with yourself, your friends, your loved ones. What could be a better place than your backyard for such a private element? Having a small garden in your backyard will give you the perfect retreat, but the real question is who has the time in the world to try out different alternatives and find the best small garden design idea to implement? This is where this article fits in. It provides a curated list of 10 small flower garden ideas to assist you embellish your own backyard.

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COLORS TO MAKE YOU JOYOUS

Nothing stimulates our mood as colors do, so much so that there is a specialized branch of study, color psychology, to understand the effect of colors on our well being. Talking of colors, the first thing you can do is to choose having a colorful backyard, enliven with small flowers of different hues and tones. In one corner of your backyard, you can mull to have perfectly structured rows, or even circles, of bright color flowers, use the yellow ones for emotional strength, pink ones for tranquility, blue ones for serenity and intellectual sublimity, white ones for purity and clarity of thought. When creating a colorful small flower corner, you should keep in mind to balance colors against each other in terms of tone, spread, and petal correspondence and composition.

ROWS OF PETUNIAS

Another way to make your garden colorful is by adding various types of petunias in a multitude of  forms. A good choice would be to use colorful petunias in your garden to create rows of the flowers and use those to form a border in your garden.You can think of other ways to use it as well, like planting them in planter boxes. Take note that even the petunia plants in the above image have been planted in flower pots, which are placed side by side. You need to limit your choice to three colors, as shown in the image. If you choose to use petunias for your flower garden, you should consider the color balance, opting for two or more colors will increase the complexity of your garden and enrich the senses. In the long term the goal is to build a cozy retreat in your backyard.

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