Green gardening is easy enough for beginners to be successful.
Each year the garden returns, the only difference is that it becomes more lush and beautiful in each progressive year.
Perennial plants are a gardener's best friend.
Whether you have a large yard with lots of space for plants or are limited to pots on a balcony, there are perennial plants that will work for you.
Flowering bushes are especially nice, just be careful to choose ones that will not overgrow the area you have available.
The miniature or dwarf fruit trees can also be an attractive addition to a balcony garden as well as being a great conversation starter.
Larger areas provide a much greater variety of choices for the green gardener.
An ugly privacy fence can be completely hidden with climbing fruit and flower vines.
This not only gives you the beauty you crave, it also supplies you with luscious fresh fruit in season.
Some of my favorite vines are seedless grape vines and trumpet flowers.
The northern areas with shorter growing seasons can introduce some problems when it comes to variety.
Always be sure that the plants you are putting in are safe for the zone you live in.
Mixing flowering and fruiting vines not only adds to the variety in your garden it also encourages birds and wildlife to visit.
For some people this may seem like a bad thing.
If you think about it though, there is only so much fresh fruit that you can eat.
Why not donate some of it back to nature? Watching the birds as they visit your yard can be entertaining and relaxing.
You will notice that the vines were suggested for border fencing.
It is not a good idea to put fruit vines too close to your home.
Any fruit that you or the wildlife doesn't eat will eventually fall to the ground and need to be cleaned up.
If it falls to the ground out at the edge of your property it is not as much of an inconvenience as it could be by the door.
Green gardening is as much a state of mind as anything.
Matching up the plants you put in the ground with the area where you live allows you to have a beautiful garden with little or no work.
When you start your perennial garden remember to leave some room for the plants to spread out as they mature.
Most perennial plants will multiply so while your garden may look a little bare the first year, it will rapidly fill in any open spaces you leave.