Furnishing a garden with plants is a lot like choosing a home-decor style. To discover your favorite type of garden, check out botanical gardens and historic restorations, take garden tours, and visit local flower shows. Make notes and take photos of what you like. Create a scrapbook to help distill the look you're after. You'll need hoses, sprinklers, watering cans, and nozzles to keep your plantings wet.
Sprinklers come in a variety of sizes for specific waterworks.
Fan sprinklers water broad bands of grass and give vegetable gardens a good dousing. For spot sprays, watering cans wet the spot. Get two to balance the load and avoid back strain. Spray nozzles attach to the end of hoses for control of the flow and the occasional water fight with friends. Use hose reels to keep hoses from being chewed up by mowers or from hiding in the grass to trip the unwary.