6. Planning Your Garden
Planning is one of the most essential factors for any garden, and yet it’s the most common thing that first-time gardeners will forget about when they arrange their first plants. If you don’t want to worry about what you should have planted were a few months down the line, make sure you have at least a vague outline of what should go where even before you plant the first plants.
A good garden is more than just an arrangement of plants that looks good; an excellent garden should be an entire ecosystem on its own, and what you plant in your garden (whether you’re doing it directly into the ground or in pots instead) should complement one another.
There are many plants known for driving away bugs, and other plants are great for providing the necessary shade that rose plants thrive with. Catnip, for example, is great to ward away bugs – but not too near roses since cats are often attracted to the plant.