Set Yourself Apart: Create Your Own Wind Chime Garden
Stephen Betzen
Wind chimes are an eclectic addition to any landscape. They add
a dynamic element to yards that host flower gardens and water
features and can accessorize walkways, herb gardens, and entry
ways. There is no limit to how you can use wind chimes to
enhance your backyard environment.
If you are one who enjoys sound integrated into your outdoor
view, you might want to consider creating a wind chime garden –
it will set your view to music. A wind chime garden can cover
the entire area of your back yard, or be limited to a small
section of your backyard landscape – the choice is up to you.
The beauty of a wind chime garden is that you can design it to
be uniquely your own – you decide on wind chime placement, tone
and style. Following are a few ideas to get you started thinking
about how you might implement a wind chime garden into your
outdoor scenery.
1) Select spots for your wind chimes throughout your yard,
paying close attention to the direction and patterns of the
wind. Through proper placement, you could create your own
gentle, whimsical outdoor concert.
2) Choose wind chimes that are simple in appearance to void
clashes in décor styles. This way, they will effortlessly blend
in wherever they are placed. When it comes to wind chimes, it’s
more about the sound than the look. In fact, many of the more
decorative types of wind chimes are not made in such a way that
allows for the same pristine sound quality as those of a simple
aluminum design.
3) Create a wind chime garden by hanging your chimes at
different heights. For example, place a set of wind chimes up
on a deck, another in a smaller tree line and yet another among
your flowers. The sound will dance with depth across your yard
each time a breeze blows through.
4) If you like the look of wind chimes and want them in your
sight, hang them where they will reflect the sun as it comes up
in the morning and moves down at night. Aluminum wind chime
gardens go well with stone décor, flowing water (like in a
water fall or a bird bath), and near evergreens.
5) Sprinkle your wind chime garden with dream catchers, bird
houses and sculptures. This will provide additional visual
aesthetics while providing areas of mass for the wind chime
sound to bounce off of – depending on the frequency and
directions of your breezes, you could hear an entirely new
sound when least expected.
6) If you have a street that runs near your house carrying a
lot of traffic noise, consider concentrating your wind chime
garden on the side of your yard that borders that particular
street. You might want to mingle taller flowers and designer
grasses with bold toned wind chimes to create a sound barrier.
Then, place lighter toned wind chimes nearer the house,
radiating from the outside edge of the wind chime border. This
additional placement of wind chimes will further soften any
traffic sounds that do happen to make it through.
7) Create a living wind chime garden by incorporating sight,
sound, smell, and touch into a selected area – preferably the
one you will spend the most time in. This can act a stress
relieving vista – the place you go to unwind at the end of each
day. Your wind chimes provide the sound and partner with the
other elements in the area to form a pleasant sight. The scent
sense can be aroused by floral elements and touch can be
integrated into the wind chime garden in the form of
comfortable seating. Light a large candle or burn a fire in a
metal fire pit to create a romantic aura.
8) Incorporate wind chimes in your flower garden on sections of
wrought iron trellis or hang them inside the upper areas of a
gazebo. Place them near doorways and breezeways for a special
effect as guests come and go – wind chimes are quite welcoming
upon arrival and a pleasant good-bye upon departure.
9) Create an outdoor room, placing your wind chime garden in an
area beyond the main seating area so that the chimes ring as
gentle background music to engaging conversations or star
gazing. What is an outdoor room? It is a concept that is
growing in popularity -- a fully-furnished space, complete with
a fire place or fire pit, a wet bar and even rugs. The area is
“walled in” by trellises, potted plants, stone half-walls, etc.
A wind chime garden that sits just beyond the “room” adds an
unparalleled ambiance to an evening “out.”
Regardless of your preferred decorating style – whether it is
southwest décor, country home décor, fen shui home decorating
or something else – a wind chime garden can be a unique and
relaxing part of your outdoor spaces. The best part of creating
a wind chime garden is that you can make it as unique as you
are. Show off your personality using the scents, sights, and
sounds of nature and wind chimes as your personal creative
tools.
About The Author: Stephen Betzen is a loving
husband/supporter/and friend to his wife Rachel Betzen. Rachel
and Stephen are dedicated to socially and ethically responsible
business practices. Lovers of gardening and simple living. They
sell wind chimes online.
http://www.ecowindchimes.com
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