You might only have a small lawn, and don't want to dig it all up, but you do have a good-sized patio. Well, you can share your seating and eating area with a garden. Not a conventional garden, naturally, but a garden non-the less.
With some great and decretive pots and containers, you can create a full garden on the patio.
First decide if you want to grow vegetables, flowers, bushes or trees. All can be grown in containers. Just remember to know which plants take well to container growing. Nearly every vegetable can be grown this way.
For some great information and ideas for patio gardening see these wonderful links:
Our own Clay Higgins shows us how he transformed his front entrance in Front Patio Garden with Daffodil
Heavenly Hanging Hummer Baskets! Author: Naomi Mathews writes, "Create striking hanging baskets to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to your deck or patio..."
Deck and Balcony Gardens:
If you have absolutely no lawn, but have a deck or balcony, you have garden space. In fact, doing your gardening in these spaces add the feel of another room in the house. You can have a purely ridged plan or mix and match all sorts of plantings.
If you are creative you can produce a garden "room" That no one will want to leave. Try a bench with a planter attached at both ends. Put some potted trees behind it and you will have a wonderful little nook for intimate rendezvous.
at Container Gardening Author: Keith Muraoka has some great ideas, tips and information.
Rooftop Gardens:
Are you an Urbanite? Do you love the city but long to have fresh veggies and flowers at your fingertips? Don't despair, if you have a roof, or access to one, you can have that gardening experience.
Roof gardens aren't anything new, but if you have never seen one you're in for a treat. The look and feel of a roof garden is like nothing you have ever experienced. Among the beautiful cityscape view, you can create the tastes and smells of nature. If you do have that roof and that dream, you really must try a rooftop garden.
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