Before you get on the job of redoing your garden, make sure you know what it entails. This is certainly not a job for the fainthearted or for people who do not want to get their nails dirty. Also if you are a gardening ignoramus, don't take up the job until you know what gardening is all about.

For starters you can enroll yourself in a gardening course. While attending a course will not turn you into a master-gardener overnight, it will at the least familiarize you with the elements of gardening. A practical course would be excellent. Spending time by a flower bed teaches you more about soil, fertilizing, color and texture than any do-it-yourself book. Remember that a garden is a micro eco-system by itself and a good landscaper must consider factors beyond the drawing on a graph paper such as seasonal changes and plant maturing.

In this e-era, you can also take the help of landscape design software. These are quite useful, as many software packages allow you to use pictures of your home and lawn and allow to drag and drop pictures of plants and other hardscape elements and help you visualize your new garden in 3-D even before it is worked on. Some of the software also helps you to seek out flora by growth rate, size, moisture tolerance etc. The internet also provides you with useful database on the trees, shrubs, flowers of the particular region you live in. Remember to use as many native plants as possible.

If all this still doesn't instill the confidence you need to begin a makeover on your garden, you could seek the help of a professional in the field. Before you hire one, you need to enquire about their credentials and years of experience. Better still go to a site where they have already done work. Even better would be to check out a piece of work which has been around for at least 3-5 years. The garden softscape and hardscape should be in synergy with each other and there should be enough color on garden palette to prove that the professional is a knowledgeable person.

After the garden is planned out it makes good sense to get involved directly. Your commitment and 'sense of belonging' to the garden will be in direct proportion to the degree of your involvement. It will be a lot of work, but the satisfaction you derive from your garden will certainly compensate you for your tired limbs, sun burned neck and grubby nails.

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