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5 Unique Features to Add to Your Garden

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Five unique features to add to your garden

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You’re always looking for ways to add value and beauty to the space, but you don’t want to do so at the expense of convenience? Luckily, there are many ways that you can make your garden more useful and enjoyable without spending hours tending it every week. Here are five ideas for how to enhance your outdoor living space:

1. A veggie garden

A veggie garden is a great way to add variety, colour and nutrients to your diet. It’s also a fun project that can help you learn more about growing food.

Growing vegetables is not difficult, but there are a few things you should know before getting started.

Vegetables taste better when they are fresh from the garden and good for you! They’re full of vitamins, minerals, fibre and antioxidants – nutrients that help protect against disease. Not only do vegetables make it easy to get enough fruits and veggies in your diet, but they’re also easy to grow whether you have a lot of space or just want to try something new in small containers on your balcony or patio. Check out this guide on growing backyard veggie patches.

2. A compost bin

Composting is a great way to reduce waste disposal costs, recycle kitchen scraps and garden waste, and improve the health of your soil. It’s also a great way to make sure you have enough food for yourself and your family when times are tough. If you’re looking for ways to become more sustainable in all aspects of life, composting is a must-have addition to your garden!

When most people think of composting, they think about rotting garbage that stinks up their living room for weeks at a time – but that’s not what we’re talking about here. Composting simply means adding organic matter (like leaves) along with some carbon-rich material (like a newspaper) into piles where it breaks down into rich soil over time with frequent stirring or turning by hand or machine known as “turning”. As these materials break down, they become ideal mediums for growing healthy plants. That is because they contain plenty of nutrients like nitrogen which feed plant growth while reducing nutrient loss due to leaching into waterways when applied directly on fields during irrigation efforts thanks in part due these same microbes working hard within each pile too!

3. A water feature

A water feature can be a fountain, a pond, or even a bubbling stream. It can help attract wildlife to your garden. Birds will bathe in it and drink from it. Frogs may come to live in the pond’s cool waters as well.

Even more intriguingly, some homeowners have found that their water features provide them with additional benefits such as reduced noise on their property and protection from the heat of summer by providing shade over the garden area they’ve placed them in!

4. Colourful plants

The garden is one of the best places to add colour, but it can also be one of the hardest to do so. It’s easy to get carried away with all those beautiful flowers and plants, but you can find yourself overwhelmed by all that choices.

  • Plant colourful perennials. Perennials are a great way to add colour throughout spring, summer and autumn within a border or container. They’re also perfect for filling in gaps between shrubs or vegetable beds where bare soil may show through more than other parts of your garden. They’ll complement existing designs while bringing their unique style at the same time! To maintain plants in the right way, it is best to use hydroponic growing systems because, with less care and effort, you will manage to have beautiful plants.
  • Add a pop of colour with annuals such as petunias or geraniums – these have an instant impact once they’re planted out and will brighten up any shady areas within your garden and provide an attractive backdrop against which other plants (such as trees/shrubs) will thrive too!
  • Decorate pots & containers using brightly coloured plastic containers, which are easily cleaned after use each year without having any harmful effects on surrounding soil quality; alternatively, try using terracotta pots instead! These work particularly well when filled with herbs like thyme planted alongside vegetables such as broad beans, which need plenty of sun exposure each day during the summer months.

5. Family-friendly features

  • A swing. That is a classic feature that can be as simple or as elaborate as you want to make it. It should be tall enough for adults to swing on but low enough for toddlers to use safely too-and sturdy enough not to collapse if they do!
  • A sandbox. Again, this is a classic feature that can be as simple or fancy as you’d like it to be-but the sand must be clean and dry before the kids start playing so they don’t get messy!
  • Treehouse. This might require more work than other features in your garden, but it’s worth it when you see how much fun they have climbing up there together! The treehouse should also have good handrailings, so kids don’t fall off while playing inside or outside at night (it’s best not to leave them alone).
  • Vegetable patch/herb garden/flower beds etc. These are great ways for families with children who love growing things together – whether it’s just learning about nature together by watching what happens over time under different conditions (e.g., watering vs drought) or actually helping each other out physically through planting seeds together etc…

We hope that you’re inspired to make some changes to your own garden, whether it’s a small corner of your yard or a full-on conversion. Remember: gardens are meant to be fun and relaxing places where you can spend time with the people you love. So get out there and make something beautiful!

Alison Pearson is an interior design student. She is a writer and designer, and her ultimate passion is art and architecture. She is also a bibliophile and her favourite book is "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner. Follow her on Twitter.

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