Are You Tired Of Feeling Ashamed Of Your Garden?

Let’s face it, as much as we’d like to, not all of us were born with a green thumb. It can be pretty disheartening when you have friends and relatives growing beautiful plants and vegetables while you’re struggling to even keep a cactus alive. This can be even more difficult when it comes to your garden. Suddenly it’s like you’ve got a whole little ecosystem to take care of and when that’s something that you find challenging, it can be seriously embarrassing. In fact, for a lot of people, it’s even enough to make them want to keep guests away at all costs. Of course, that’s hardly a way to live, and if you want to create a garden that you can be proud of, it’s not actually that difficult. Here are a few simple tips to help you stop feeling ashamed of your garden.

Make it a part of your routine

Pretty much all of us have some kind of cleaning routine. Whether you spread your chores across the week or you do everything in a giant Sunday whirlwind through the house, it’s a fantastic way to keep your home looking clean and tidy. So if you do that for your interiors, why not do the same for your garden. In reality, many of the things that you need to do in order to prevent your garden from looking messy and overgrown are pretty quick and simple. Mowing the lawn regularly and preventing plants from getting too tall don’t need to be big jobs and won’t take you more than a few minutes each if you do them often enough.

Keep it simple

Just because you want your garden to be beautiful doesn’t mean that it has to become incredibly complicated. Sure, you might have dreams of various different flowers, a vegetable patch, and a treehouse, but why not scale it back a bit and focus on the simple things. Grow some flowers that you know don’t need too much care, like sunflowers or sweet peas, and don’t worry too much about keeping things too neat. There’s a certain charm to just throwing the seeds around the edge of your lawn and letting them grow naturally.

Spend more time in it

One of the habits that a lot of people get into is that they try and hide away from their garden when it’s looking overgrown. However, if you start spending more time in it then you can get used to keeping it neat in the same way you do your home. Set up some outdoor furniture and spend a portion of your day just hanging out in your garden. You really will be amazed at just how much it motivates you to keep it neat and tidy.   

These tips might seem obvious and over simple but the reality is that keeping a garden looking beautiful doesn’t need to be that much of a challenge. By following these tips, you’ll be ready to show off your garden to everyone as well as creating a space that you can actually enjoy.