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Homes & Gardens
Sarah Wilson

5 Spring Garden Design Mistakes Most Homeowners Make – And How Designers Fix Them

Garden landscape design with staggered brick path and painted wall, with flowerbeds filled with bearded irises, ornamental grasses and succulents, plus container with black aeonium, and trees .

Spring is a great time of year to consider making adjustments to your garden design as the bare bones have been revealed all winter, allowing you to work out exactly what needs fixing. You can see at a glance if a border needs renovating, the color scheme of your planting has become too haphazard, or your garden is lacking a statement feature to pull the design together more seamlessly.

Before you fall into the trap of making one of the common spring garden design mistakes it's worth listening to advice from landscape designers who can advise you on the best ways to fix these problems. If you've decided you want to refresh a garden border, introduce a more cohesive layered look to your planting, or integrate more containers into your design these spring garden ideas will help shape your decisions.

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