How to find out the best garden style for your home

It is extremely helpful to keep in mind what kind of garden you want to create. Do you want a formal or informal look? Do you want to include space to grow fruits, vegetables or herbs? Do you want to have a lawn? Are you looking to design an outdoor entertaining space? All of these questions will help determine the size and species of plant nursery Adelaide that will work best in your area.

It's also important to consider some other practical considerations to determine what's best suited to your particular circumstances. For example, do you need trees to protect your home from the summer sun, or plants to provide you with privacy? Or are you just looking for plants that will add colour and grace to your home? These very different functions require very different types of plants and trees, and so the role you want your garden to play affects your thinking.

Consider the maintenance.

More practically, it's also very important to think about what type of gardener you are. The higher the level of maintenance of your plants, the more commitment is required on your part, so think about your lifestyle and how much time and energy you can realistically devote to maintaining your garden. It would be a shame if lack of time prevented you from keeping plants and gardens well, so that all your initial efforts eventually failed, and you ended up with a garden that could not fulfil the role you intended. Again, this is where plant selection is important – make sure you choose plants and trees fromonline nursery that require as much care and attention as you can give them.

One way to avoid accidentally introducing invasive plants to your garden is to carefully investigate the source of any plants you purchase from a garden center or plant nursery, and to avoid car boot sales or others accepting cuttings. Furthermore, when you are considering indigenous species, it is important that they are grown from locally obtained seeds, to make the most of your local conditions.

If you're unsure about where to start selecting drought-tolerant plants and trees, you can learn a lot by visiting private and public gardens in your suburb that manage to survive even the hottest and driest conditions. Local nurseries or garden centres will be able to give you additional suggestions about plants that have been grown successfully in your neighbourhood. Remember that plants that grow well and look good in other parts of South Australia or interstate may not always be suitable for an Adelaide Garden. This is why it is always good advice to source as much as you can locally.