Garden Design Concepts and Garden Art Projects
When designing gardens, considering the plant form and color of plants are good first steps. Also consider the plant texture. Plant texture is the feel of the leaves of a plant. The “feel” can be by touch, as well as by sight. The size, shape, and leaf surface makes up a plant’s visual texture. The [...]
When designing gardens, knowing about plant forms can help you create a design that looks good and that gives a particular overall feeling, such as formal, relaxed, or whimsical. In The Complete Planting Design Course, Hilary Thomas writes that “the form of a plant is its overall shape when in leaf.” Some common forms of [...]
A color scheme based on a single color is known as a monochromatic design. A garden bed or border so designed has the principle properties of boldness, simplicity, and clarity. It is a style that demands some courage on behalf of the designer – many, probably the majority of home gardeners are frightened off the [...]
The overall aesthetic effect of a garden upon your whole landscape is the result of several basic design principles, as well as the harmony – and sense of completion – that they manage to achieve together. There is no single “right” way to create that kind of visual harmony, because it will be, in large [...]
You can achieve some rather dramatic special effects with your outdoor lighting when you incorporate the effects of lighting to enhance your landscape design. Careful placement of the lighting fixture in relation to your landscaping focal attentions and necessities can result in a truly breathtaking cooperative event that screams out to visitors, “Hey, lookee at [...]
One garden design concept is to create a focal point in the garden. Some plants can be considered “specimen plants” because of their unique characteristics, such as a striking color, form, or texture. The idea behind focal-point planting is to make these specimen plants stand out, as well as to avoid a chaotic look and feel [...]
Meadow gardens are one of the hottest trends in garden design. They have the wind swept natural look that never loses its appeal. Gardens and people share something in common – looks can be deceiving! Meadow gardens may seem that they have been forever part of the landscape. Meadow gardens, however, are actually the result [...]
