Home Gardening Tips

Bill Stanley on Growing Flowers, Organic Vegetables, and More

Home Gardening Tips header image 2

A Beginners Guide To Garden Bridges

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments · garden bridges, garden design, garden ornaments, home gardening tips

Garden Bridges
Questions & Answers (Q&A)
Just because you don’t have huge, elaborate gardens does not mean you can’t accentuate what you do have with l garden bridges. Garden bridges could be just what you need to turn those mediocre garden areas into something quite splendid.

Garden bridges can add a touch of country or formal design to a garden. Small garden bridges are easy to find. There are many garden bridges that you can find in garden centers or home improvement centers. One of the best places to find small garden bridges may be online. There are lots of sites that have many ideas for small garden bridges.

If you are good with a hammer and nails you may even be able to make your own garden bridge. Plans are available at building stores and at online sites. You will find many choices for garden bridges at these online sites and you can also see photos of many different bridge styles.

A garden bridge can be a big benefit for your garden space. A small garden bridge will look attractive in a smaller garden and draw attention to a specific area.

You can choose the right small garden bridge if you do a little planning ahead of time. If you have a smaller garden you will want a smaller garden bridge. Look at the space you have and decide where a bridge would fit in. Consider more than one area and then choose your favorite.

There are some lovely gardens that are small in size but large in beauty because garden bridges have been added in just the right places.

We have a large number of styles and varieties of garden
bridges available online. For more information and to learn
more about garden bridges, visit:
Garden Bridges Online

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Charles_Truett

 


Garden Bridges Pictures

Garden_Decor_garden-bridges-dv2300
Garden_Decor_garden-bridges-dv3000
garden-bridge-4
garden-bridges-no-cat
garden-bridges-jerome-cat
800px-Second_Garden_bridge_St_Petersburg_fence
800px-First_Garden_bridge_St_Petersburg_fence
garden-bridge-pic
garden-bridge72
bridges_20highrail
30538_b
garden-bridges_big
arborsfootbridge
wood-garden-bridge
new5ftlarry
Watergarden_Bridge_A_rsz
12ftroperailstained
10ftbridgeandPicnictable
Garden-Bridges


Garden Bridges Videos

Garden Bridges commercial for www.Redwoodbridges.com

Ritsurin-Koen garden bridges

Garden Bridges Home and Garden woodcrafts

Portland Japanese Garden - Bridge



Garden Bridges Question & Answers

Garden Bridges Question: 1


Japanese garden ruined by neighbors tree.?

I created a Japanese garden with fountains, lanterns, bridges and fine gravel. I even combed the gravel and rock to give it that zen quality. However, my neighbor has this shit bag tree that sheds leaves all over it; but, even worse it has these weird nut berries that created a huge mess when they burst on the ground. How can I protect my garden that I worked so hard on? Is there a shade to cover it?

Answer: 1.
You can either ask the neighbor to trim back the tree a bit, or check to see if it is legal in your town to trim anything that hangs over your property....
Answer: 2.
keep your pimp hand strong
Answer: 3.
is it black berry's dropping from it and the tree has long thin limbs that hang down ? the question is can you afford to build it im thinking you can and you havent got a choice you done spent a wad on the garden already . first you need to take in a few things like the sun and the wind and wen this happens and how far away is the tree from your promise land this info is important to get a good answer sadly i can only reply to this once so drop me a line and fill me in .I CAN HELP
Answer: 4.
Here in Calif if the neighbors trees are hanging over in our yard we by law can trim them and throw them in his yard to take care of...We trim the neighbors tree but take care of the mess....We get those black berries all over on one side of the yard from the neighbors...and it has stained the new concrete....and gets in the pool it is a real +mess.....You might check on that where you live....
It is really sad you put in all that work and love...and that happens.
Answer: 5.
My little two-story house by the Ōhashigawa, although dainty as a birdcage, proved much too small for comfort, at the approach of the hot season; the rooms being scarcely higher than steamship cabins, and so narrow that an ordinary mosquito-net could not be suspended in them. I was very sorry to lose the beautiful lake view, but I found it necessary to remove to the northern quarter of the city, into a very quiet street behind the mouldering castle. My new home is a katchiû-yashiki, the ancient residence of some samurai of high rank.

Garden Bridges Question: 2


What's the name of the little cement building in the middle of a lake in Japanese Gardens called? (image)?

What's the name of the little cement building in the middle of a lake in Japanese Gardens called?It's something like this, except made of cement and in the middle of the lake, with a wooden/cement bridge.http://www.japangarden.co.uk/showcase9/DanJap2.jpgIt's something like this, but in the middle of a lake, connected by a bridge.http://www.indospectrum.com/digimages/ggpark/cd018_pagoda_stow_lake_closeup.jpgWhat I'm looking for is the name for a Gazebo made of marble in the middle of a lake.http://k41.pbase.com/o6/85/582185/1/49934326.MpWda9PF.JapansesGardenTeaHouse.jpg

Answer: 1.
A tea house is usually in the center of an island, or perhaps a shrine. Both pictures look like tea houses.
Answer: 2.
Outhouse. That one looks like it is overflowing though.
Answer: 3.
Pagoda possibly, in Japanese Gardens, it usually has in the center, a tea house called a Kashin-Tei......
Answer: 4.
i believe a pagoda.

Garden Bridges Question: 3


Should trees pay for our infrastructure?

Here a road, there a bridge, then a flyover, a high rise and so... Trees in our Garden City are paying the price for infrastructure projects that go by varied names.Some are crudely pruned,some are simply chopped. Should our green resources pay for our urban needs ???What if this happened in your country what you do about this?

Answer: 1.
Absolutely Not! The other negative is global warming.......The real source of the problem is the lack of money in third world countries. Costa Rica is probably one of the best countries outside the US for ecological balance, and the enviornment.

We need more people like you that are concerned.

http://www.tortugamarina.org/modules.php...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Engl...
Free Trade Threatens Costa Rican Environmental Protections

Date: March 31, 2004
Source: Dissidentvoice.org, U.S.A.

...When most people think of Costa Rica, they don't imagine oil rigs stationed off the pristine beaches. Nor do they envision pit mines cutting into the cloud-forested mountains. But, despite the country's noteworthy conservation efforts, its scenic vistas and extraordinary biodiversity have faced real threats from extractive industries...
http://www.costarica.com/Home/News/Envir...
Answer: 2.
Definitely no!
Trees should not pay the cost for our ever-expanding urban sprawl.
With good design and careful planning more of these natural features should be kept intact.
They have the natural ability to add to any design!
Why don't more architects, engineers and designers realise this!
Very good question Hope Summer.

EDIT: This does happen in our country, everyone wants to live as close as possible to the coastline here.
Our sand dunes and hinterland areas are being decimated daily to make way for urban expansion.
Hope Summer, as an individual there is little you can do.
But there are environmental groups you can join, these groups have a far stronger voice than a single person.
Answer: 3.
If trees pay for our infrastructure..... then we will pay for lesser trees ....... every action has an equal and opposite reaction......
Answer: 4.
TREES HAVE NO RIGHTS THEY ARE THERE FOR US TO USE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Answer: 5.
Those tree have already helped to cut down on co2 emission do u know how many trees have cut down ?.....
Answer: 6.
The last time I heard, trees are a renewable resource
Answer: 7.
Unfortunately we can not control what others do but we can set a good example for them. Get involved in community activities to help protect your community's environment. Most cities have open forums for citizen opinions on building both public and private. If you see an issue that involves the trees and the landscape as you mentioned, speak up about it. I too hate what some trimmers will do to trees with no consideration for the health of the tree or the trees aesthetics. I have confronted and actually stopped trimmers from butchering a few trees in the past. When I see something done right, such as planting the proper height trees under power wires so they won't be butchered when they reach full height, I tell the city what a good choice they made. Speaking out works both ways.
Answer: 8.
nope...it's sad that trees have to be the sacrifice for our development..that is what it cost us for the world development..
Answer: 9.
(from the book of tea) Sad as it is, we cannot conceal the fact that in spite of our companionship with flowers we have not risen very far above the brute. Scratch the sheepskin and the wolf within us will soon show his teeth. It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes a criminal because he has never ceased to be an animal. Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar is forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves. Our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him. We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us. What atrocities do we not perpetrate in the name of culture and refinement!
Answer: 10.
It's not just the trees..it's all the critters, too.
Answer: 11.
Trees can be regrown or replanted. It is that simple. The funiest thing about environmentalists is they usually end up using the things that cause 'damage' to the environment. They use cars, electricity, wood, synthetic materials, natural and processed gas, they build mansions (in the case of John Edwards and Al Gore), or they use private jets (Al Gore, again).

Environmentalism is the new way to shove redistribution of wealth and prosperity down everyone's throats. It is the new method of communism.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Sir Winston Churchill
Answer: 12.
no they shouldnt. nothing should pay for somethings else's fault
Answer: 13.
I love trees!! We need more of them.
Answer: 14.
i don't think trees are capable of having jobs yet
Answer: 15.
survival of the fittest. Everyone has to have a home to live in. If you feel guilty about chopping down trees join the Arbor day foundation and plant some trees.

Garden Bridges Question: 4


how to plan & design a japanese garden?

I would like to create a japanese garden on a shoe string budget in a small area of my garden.I also want a water feature in it with hopefully a bridge.Big wish list .I work well with pictures which i can relate to.

Answer: 1.
Hope the links below help you create the Japanese garden with a bridge!

http://www.aboutjapanesegardens.org/

http://www.mojg.org/

http://www.jgarden.org/

http://www.tokyo-gardens.com/

http://images.google.com/images?q=japane...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ga...
Answer: 2.
Best to go to the zoo, look at the plants and find out what is already around you to work with. Then ask a gardener how to make the plants into what you want them to become. Use water works already around you to design your water feature and make a small bridge with branches from the large plants you start with.
Answer: 3.
go shopping and look at the gardens in the stores, there are lots of small plant and trees ,Home depot and Lowe's have small preformed water ponds, koi fish are cheap at pet smart (get the small ones maybe 2) gold fish are cheaper ,they live in the pond all winter, it will be fun ,I had one before I moved ,so will set up another one next spring
Answer: 4.
get a book from the library

Garden Bridges Question: 5


What are you favorite garden decoration websites?

Looking for things like little gnomes, mushroom statues..bridges..etc..

Answer: 1.
http://www.theintimategardener.com/
Answer: 2.
I am looking for small stones not mosaic tiles to create a pattern in my patio. any suggestions where to buy in the region of malaga spain
Answer: 3.
www.freewebs.com/discountwholesales

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...

Tags: ···

0 responses so far ↓

  • There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.

Leave a Comment

Visits: Visited 1951 Times