How To Design An Island Garden
Add about four to six inches 10 15 cm of topsoil more if you have it amended with compost to the island bed spreading it evenly or for additional interest add hills or mounds.
How to design an island garden. But the first rule of creating perfect garden is to start at all and to know that nothing is ever perfect. Tropical plants like good rich soils that drain easily. Sand and heavy clay can be improved with compost heavy mulch layers approx 15cm or 6 inches thick and other soil improvers.
Creating an island bed is pretty much like digging out any garden bed use a shovel or a spade and dig up that sod you can actually use spray paint to mark the edges of the bed on the lawn no worries it will be gone soon anyway. And if you miss some the lawn mower will get it next time around. Tropical gardens can look excellent or straggly so the soil is a major starting ground to ensure your garden will thrive.
Add compost and till in. It need to be that way so throughout the growing season to have different flowers and plant species.