ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE (2+1)

Some points to be considered in designing a home garden

• To keep down maintenance cost and time, an untrimmed hedge should be preferred over trimmed one; open lawns and shrubs need less attention than annual flower beds.


• If the beds and borders in a lawn are edged with stone or brick, hand-clipping of grass will not be required.


• A pool needs to be cleaned occasionally and one should ponder twice before including this in the plan.


• The water outlets in the garden should be fixed at appropriate places so that the hoses are not dragged to long distances.

The above suggestions are for reducing the labour cost which is especially relevant in industrially advanced countries where labour is costly. Fortunately in India, labour is not so costly and one can include one or two features needing help of manual labour.

To create privacy, trees, hedges, shrubs, fences, or creepers trained on wire-mesh structure supported by angle iron or GI pipe pillars can be grown. Trees are used when height is needed, otherwise hedges and other types of screens should be preferred.