Small Garden Bridges - A great addition to your landscape!
Do you look out your window to your backyard and think, “It’s missing something”? Do you enjoy a Japanese koi pond, but look at it and think it’s missing a key element? Do you have an area in your yard that needs something architectural? If any of these answers are yours, then adding something like small garden bridges to your yard may be the answer.
If you have decided that you want to add small garden bridges to your landscape, there are many free ideas online to get design concepts about what type of structure you would like. Are you working on building privacy in your yard and you want to use small garden bridges over a dry riverbed, covered with a trellis to aid in your privacy endeavors? Maybe you don’t want your neighbors looking into your backyard. If you put in an arched trellis, cover it with a vine, add small garden bridges to your walkway, you now have privacy and beauty in the same concept.
Small garden bridges are also a great addition to any water pond setting. If you want to attract little animals, such as frogs and birds, having a resting place for them to sit is imperative, if you want them to stay. Also making sure you have plants surrounding small garden bridges is key to making them look natural. Small garden bridges are also a great way for aquatic life in your pond to thrive and have hiding places to get away from birds that may threaten them, such as herons.
They come in a variety of woods, sizes and colors. There are great books on the market, showing you step by step how to build one yourself. You can use a variety of woods; from cedar, treated lumber and bamboo are some of the most popular. Choosing the correct wood is important; learning how to care for that wood is vital! If you choose to make a wooden one, make sure that you know how to treat it so you will have it for years! There are great kits that are affordable for the do it yourselfer! They assemble fairly easily without a lot of complicated tools needed.
Making small garden bridges can be time consuming through. If you would rather come home from work, look out your window and see your beautiful new addition, then there are many reputable places you can purchase ready made small garden bridges. You give them the dimensions and they ship it to you! Whichever way you decide to purchase, you will love the effect it has on your garden!