If you live in an apartment or small town house with little room for a small backyard garden, you can build your own potted garden on your porch. Choose plants that grow best in small landscaping areas and pots. After choosing the plants, you can purchase a variety of styles of pots or planters that can be displayed to enhance the front porch design, including flower pots, railing planters, and hanging planters.

In order to achieve the perfect backyard look for your garden you must make sure it to blend and match the overall landscape design of your yard. When considering which plants to buy you should think about not only what plants you like, but which ones go with your home, and the amount of work you are willing to put in to maintain this garden. Choose the color scheme based on the colors of your house and try to chose colors that match and go well together. For those homeowners who want a simple flower garden or an exotic japanese water garden, choose plants based on the colors that best fit your style. If your green thumb is lacking, you can pick flowers that are easy to grow and require little maintenance such as Daisies, California Poppies, Alyssum, and Zinnias.

If you are an expert gardener and are looking for a more elaborate landscape rock garden scene you can add stylized topiaries and more intricate plants, but keep in mind the amount of maintenance you will have to perform in order to keep your garden in tip top shape. Make sure to research the type of plants that grow best in your location and can withstand the climate of your outdoors. For those looking to learn how to grow a vegetable garden, a little more work will need to be put in. Not only will you have to choose which vegetables you wish to grow based on individual preference, but you will have to determine vegetable that grow well in your location and the seasons in which these vegetables thrive during. For both vegetable and flower gardens you should consider fencing off the perimeter of your garden to keep animals and pests out.