If you want to have a beautiful, low-maintenance walkthrough garden; opt for a natural one. Natural gardens have a soothing effect, yet don’t need too much hard work. In your natural garden, you can include a garden pond, a small lava-rock waterfall or a fountain. This will create a wonderful ambience and it also provides humidity, which is required for the proper growth of flora.

Create a butterfly garden

Create a beautiful, colorful butterfly-garden, by staggering groups of wild as well as cultivated plants. Not all of these gossamer winged creatures are alike. Different kinds of butterflies prefer different types of colors and nectar. For example, the Viceroy butterfly likes aster and milkweed; the Monarch prefers goldenrod. Keeping this in mind, you can also include butterfly weed, marigold, rosemary and pink azalea.

Butterfly activity is not just beautiful to look at, but it is also important for the longevity of your garden plants. To increase butterfly activity, have a nice mix of plants that bloom at different times of the year. Also, bear in mind that it is easier for butterflies to locate groups of flowers, not single specimens.

Having a butterfly garden helps increase the life of your garden, and also helps in conservation of some rare species of butterflies.

Wind Chimes

Be it oriental or a southwestern mix of flora, wind chimes always add beauty and calmness to your walkthrough garden. If you have a well crafted wind chime that can be precision tuned, you would know how it stimulates all your senses when you are outdoors. They bring harmony and make you feel peaceful and alive. The sound of wind chimes is tantalizing, as well as peaceful.

How wonderful would it be to have a wind chime in the area, which connects the walkthrough garden to your home? If you have a country home, it would be even better. The wind chimes can be tuned, such that their pitch compliments the sounds of the gurgling water and the birds that will come into your garden.

Plant selection

Buy and plant zone-appropriate plants that are native to your locality– perennial and wildflower varieties are great. These don’t need too much care and the view is amazing to look at . Never overcrowd plants  in a single area, as they will be more susceptible to diseases and pests.

Bird-bath

You would also want birds to visit your garden, right? So, have a nice little bird bath for water. Having a bird bath and a trellis with nectar-filled jasmine will bring balance to that butterfly garden of yours.

A few extras

To complete the landscape design of your garden, have a nice sundial, a few garden benches that are beneath a shade-giving tree and a birdfeeder. You can also have an area for basking in the sun, for those sunny days.

Using these tips, you can add more beauty to your walkthrough garden. Create a paradise for yourself right in your own backyard!