Privatizing Your Garden

Posted under Gardening

Having a house at the corner of streets will cause some consequences. It usually faces both of streets. So, the house has “L” shape of its garden. All area of its garden faces directly to streets, so it creates public area around the house.

Usually, the owners are unwilling to do some activities on the “L” garden. They prefer to do their activities at the more personal place like backyard or living room. Usually, the front garden that has public characteristic is used to increase the beauty of their house only (passive garden).

There are some steps to change the condition of your public garden so the garden can be used as personal garden.

The first step is making garden land higher than the streets, thus it has the same elevation as house floor. This technique makes people at outside cannot see the activities in the garden because the elevation of it is about 6 feet from the street. People must walk through garden stairs to enter this garden. But, its stairs looks massive so it would better if you add plants beside the stairs.

Second is planting Swiss grass whole of garden area. Adding palm at some points of its area is also good idea to make your garden more natural. To make your garden more personalize, you can add hedge around it.

The last is appending a water pool near main entrance. You can apply water pool made from black and white stones that has stratified structure. The sound of its water makes you and your family feel more enjoy staying there.