Mid-summer can be excruciatingly hot - so who wants to garden, right? It’s way too hot to be digging large planting holes. It certainly isn’t the time I would choose to renovate sections of my garden or to tackle that long put-off garden project.
However, it’s a great time to add creative elements to your garden and work on creating those outdoor rooms! Rearrange or acquire new garden furniture. Sit down in the shade and map out a new look and plan your garden before adding anything. As with indoor decorating, your garden should reflect you and your family so that everyone feels comfortable there.
Create a wonderful retreat away from the house under a big shade tree. Place furniture so that family and guests can easily converse with one another, enjoy views and listen to a trickling stream. If you don’t have a natural water element in your garden, now would be a great time to add one!
Did you know studies have shown that a water element can actually lower one’s body temperature by 2 degrees on a hot day? Prefabricated concrete or stone fountains generally take less than an hour to set up and are quite easy to care for. However, they’re heavy, so enlist the help of some neighborhood kids or friends.
Now…sit back and relax with friends and enjoy a cool beverage or two in your newly re-decorated retreat. A sure cure for the summer doldrums.