Let me tell you that it is not a rocket science and everyone who thinks about it can easily design a potager garden. In its most simple sense, if you mix English and French gardening styles with selective key features of each, you automatically create a potager garden. Here you derive style and glamour from the French gardening patterns and typical utilitarian component of the English gardening methods. This unique hybrid always results in to a lovely potager garden.
This may be an ornamental vegetable garden or herb garden as well. Selection of plants is specifically based on their utility and purpose. More often the purpose is providing a source of food for majority of the homeowners. In this time when global economies are under sharp recession and the rate of inflation are surging such a potager garden designed with vegetables would certainly be any gardener’s choice.
I wish I could specify a particular design for a potager garden because there is none. In other words, designs are only limited to your imagination. Some of my gardener friends like knot garden designs while others prefer repetitive pattern design. You may think of a symmetrical design also. Convergence with some chosen traditional designs would give you great results in my opinion. You may work on the idea.
Do you need more than a paper and pencil to design such a potager garden? I believe you do not. You just need to measure up the space and queuing up all your ideas and then it is only the growing that is remaining. This would become your garden master plan.
Assimilation of French beauty will help you molding your garden in to a good looking design. French fragrance will spice up the ornamental value of your garden. Do not forget the importance of proper distribution of lovely colors around while selecting plants for your potager garden design. Flowers are actual objects you must think of at this stage. There are best tools to help you select plants for your garden.
As a matter of fact a potager garden design is an expression of your own taste and senses. So better be more informative and go to the extreme levels of imagination.
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My name is Bill Stanley and I have been a home gardener for over 20 years. I enjoy sharing my gardening tips with friends and family, as well as the rest of the world!
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A definition for us garden-challenged folks, courtesy of http://www.wikipedia.org
A potager garden is a French method of creating ornamental vegetable or kitchen gardens. Often flowers (edible and non-edible) and herbs are planted with the vegetables to enhance the beauty. The goal is to make the function of providing food aesthetically pleasing.
Plants are chosen as much for their functionality as for their color and form. Many are trained to grow upward. A well-designed potager can provide food, cut flowers and herbs for the home with very little maintenance. Potagers can disguise their function of providing for a home in a wide array of forms–from the carefree style of the cottage garden to the formality of a knot garden.