Enhancing your lifestyle and dressing your garden with glorious textures and fragrances, culinary and cutting gardens are two wonderful features that can elevate your gardenscape tremendously.
Maybe you’re looking to throw yourself into a new hobby? Or you’re eager to boost your meals with nutritious home-grown ingredients? Bursting with flavoursome fruits and vegetables, kitchen gardens are a fantastic way to get outdoors and to kickstart your interest in gardening. Illuminating your interiors with waves of beautiful blooms and allowing you to enjoy all kinds of floral delights throughout an extended flowering period, cutting gardens are charming elements that can both awaken your garden with a unique palette of colour and perfume. From scrumptious garden vegetables to vibrant statement blooms, join us as we explore the endless rewards that become accessible to you when possessing your very own culinary and cutting garden.
Why do you need a kitchen garden?
Nutrient-rich produce
There is nothing quite like the tastes and flavours produced from your very own garden. Both an extremely rewarding and tasty process, home grown fruits and vegetables are also much richer in nutritional value than ones found within the supermarket. With raised beds brimming with salad leaves and flourishing apple trees, to the fragrant herbs of rosemary and mint, there are a mixture of kitchen garden delights that you can nurture within your culinary garden.
Wellness
Owning a kitchen garden is a great way for tempting you outdoors and brings a number of benefits to both your mind and body. Gardening and the process of looking after your kitchen garden is a wonderful form of physical exercise. Getting your body moving, being outside and taking in the fresh garden air is also a wonderful way of clearing your mind and supporting your mental health.
Environmental benefits
Reducing your carbon footprint and minimising the effects of pollution, the act of growing your own food is great way for you to do your part for the environment. With harmful herbicides often being used to grow supermarket produce, growing your own organic fruits and vegetables at home reduces the demand for this supermarket produce and consequently leads to a reduction in pollution, with less produce needed for transportation. You also significantly reduce your household waste too due to supermarket produce usually being wrapped in many different forms of packaging.
Saves you money!
A fabulous long-term investment, kitchen gardens provide you with an abundance of fresh ingredients throughout the year. From aromatic culinary herbs to juicy heirloom tomatoes, there are a number of plants that you can choose to nurture and grow, bringing flourishing harvests to enrich a variety of your everyday meals.
Why do you need a cutting garden?
Boost your interiors
With blooms flourishing from early spring to the late autumn, a cutting garden is a wonderful way to enhance your interiors with glorious colours and textures for as long as possible. With the freshly snipped delights of Dahlias, Cosmos and Roses, these bright and fragrant florals are just a few examples of the glorious blooms that could enhance your home with pops of perfume and colour. Plucked fresh and just a few steps from your front door, a cutting garden gives you exclusive access to a beautifully bespoke array of florals (that also last much longer than shop bought ones too!).
Get outdoors
Found to help reduce the symptoms of both anxiety and depression, gardening and growing home grown blooms is an activity that can also significantly reduce feelings of stress. Exercising your body and soothing your mind, cutting gardens are extremely beneficial for awakening your senses and inviting you out to enjoy your surroundings. Previous studies have also shown that just having fresh-cut flowers within your house can too reduce feelings of anxiety, diffusing a calming and relaxing effect throughout your home.
Visual interest
Diffusing dappled splashes of colour throughout the garden, cutting gardens are fantastic for filling your outdoor spaces with unique spots of visual interest, crafted especially to suit your garden’s natural aesthetic. With seamless raised beds brought to life with a specialist planting scheme design, cutting gardens are a wonderful feature for awakening any blank canvas with texture and vibrancy.
Support local wildlife and environments
Attracting butterflies, bees and other beneficial pollinators to venture into your garden, cutting gardens provide an abundant food source for a wealth of wildlife to explore. Framing a protected and secluded habitat, cutting gardens create essential ecosystems that considerably support local wildlife found within your garden.
Many of the cut flowers found within supermarkets are also typically flown over from vast international suppliers, so by growing your own blooms you can also significantly reduce your carbon footprint even more!
If you’d like to enhance your lifestyle with a cutting and a culinary garden then there is nothing stopping you from having both! Our garden design create seamless designs that include a variety of elements that blend effortlessly together, boosting your landscape and lifestyle considerably. Kickstart a sustainable and healthy lifestyle as you reap the rewards from your very own culinary and cutting garden space.
Interested in enhancing your lifestyle with a combination of culinary and cutting gardens? Get in touch today to discover how our specialist design team could transform your outdoor space.
