Gardening books, magazines and websites can all give a beginning gardener great gardening ideas. In addition, talking to experienced gardeners in gardening supply shops and nurseries can also give many helpful tips and gardening ideas to a novice gardener, even such things as what gardening supplies are best to use.

Beginning gardeners need to decide what type of garden that they want to plant. The main choice is between a fruit or vegetable garden or a flower or otherwise decorative garden. Planting a vegetable or fruit garden is more straight forward as far as gardening ideas go than is a decorative or flower garden. Gardening ideas for a fruit or vegetable garden usually encompass what types of plants grow well in different climates, tips to growing larger produce, and keeping the plants healthy through fertilizing and pesticide help.

Decorative Gardens

Gardening ideas for decorative gardens have more facets to them since there are so many different ways to use gardens as a decorative aspect to any house or apartment. One of the gardening ideas for decorative gardens is to use large plants as the focal points of the various decorative gardens in a front or back yard. They should be large flowering, large leafed, or tall statured plants so that they stand out above all the rest and naturally draw a person's eye to them, thus becoming the focal point of the garden.

Another gardening idea for decorative gardens has to do with creating the 'bones' of the garden, which means the outlines of where the garden is going to go. This can be done by using different bordering materials such as wood and stone, creating paths to, from and between gardens, as well as utilizing the trees and bushes that are naturally part of a yard's landscape.

Once the focal point plants are decided upon and the bones of the garden are laid out, then gardening ideas move to the different types of filler plants and flowers that can be utilized to create the color and texture of the garden. These plants and flowers should be used to highlight the focal points of the garden rather than take over the garden in their busy-ness. The great thing about working with the colors in nature is that colors that might clash in clothing styles or wall colors look great together when they are in a garden. For instance, bold reds and pastel pinks do not usually get put together in clothes, but in a garden, the pinks can serve to highlight the bold red flowers so that they stand out in a more dramatic affect.