Design Landscaping Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Design Landscaping For A Better Home
By Joel F Morningstar
When people arrive at your home, it is almost always the design
landscaping that surrounds your home and defines your garden areas
that give people the first impression of your property.
The landscape design that you use is one of the most important
factors in determining how your visitors will feel, when they
arrive at your residence. In addition, the landscaping around
your home will also have a considerable impact on the overall
value of your house and property.
There are many ways that you can improve the landscaping around
your home. Some people worry that to improve their landscape design
properly, they need to hire landscape architects or landscape
contractors. This can be wonderful if you can afford it, but many
people very successfully undertake the landscaping design for
their homes on their own.
Essential Design Principles
If you are interested in a review of your options and looking
at tackling the project of improving the design landscaping around
your home, then you should first learn some of the essential design
principles that are specific to landscaping. There are four primary
principles that govern a good landscape design plan.
With these principles, you can add your own preferences and sense
of style and you can easily create the landscaping around your
home that reflects your personality.
The first element of landscaping is the concept of balance. If
you concentrate most of your new plants in one area, then the
rest of your garden landscaping area will look rather neglected.
Distribute the plants around the yard or the garden at least
somewhat evenly and with a sense of flow. This will help draw
the eye though the entire landscape design and engage your visitors.
A Sense Of Proportion And Blends With The Surrounding Landscape
The second aspect of great landscaping is proportion. The idea
here is to make sure that any landscape design feature you choose
fits in appropriately, in terms of size, to the surrounding areas,
fixtures and structures.
Trying to wedge an huge gazebo into a tiny back yard will end
up looking almost comical, and will not provide a great effect.
At the same time, if you have an enormous front lawn, then you
will need to add larger elements in plantings or features that
will be noticed and not overwhelmed.
Transition From One Type To Another
Transition is the third principle you need to know for your landscaping
project and is closely related to proportion. Even though your
landscape design can include flowers, plants, large shrubs, bushes
and even trees, the way to make them really work together in a
beautiful way is with the use of transition.
It is the smooth flow from one type and size of plant to another.
You want to lead the eye from delicate plants to larger ones with
some in-between sizes. Color transitions can also be a very effective
aspect of your overall landscaping design plan.
Unity Brings All The Elements Together In Harmony
The last of the four concepts of landscaping is unity and it
is the ultimate sense that you are trying to express with your
design. All of the choices that you make in how you balance, proportion,
and transition the various colors, sizes and textures of your
landscape elements should be governed by a unifying theme.
This is what brings the landscape design together to work in
harmony and create a spectacular home and garden.
Maintain Your Theme Throughout The Design Process
It is helpful to select a theme for your design landscaping and
utilize that theme throughout your entire design plan. Just be
sure to stick to your chosen theme all the way through and only
use elements that fit into that theme.
If you started out to create the feel of an English cottage garden,
then you do not want to add accent pieces that have an oriental
flair.
About the Author:
Joel F Morningstar has written a number of articles on landscaping, gardening, backyard ideas and home improvement including
Patio Garden,
Miniature Fruit Trees,
Pepper Plant,
Lawn Swing,
Fast Growing Trees,
Stone Walkway,
Deck Ideas,
Swing Set Backyard.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
Little Known Landscaping Facts....
Can I do my own landscaping?
Yes, you can do your own landscaping if you
have a little information on how to landscape and have the time
to do so. You will be getting your hands dirty. Plus you will
need to have knowledge of what plants are the best for your terrain.
If you are creating man-made structures such as ponds or decks,
you will have to have some carpentry and plumbing skills. You
will also need to know how to upkeep the pond because the last
thing you need after putting in all that work is to develop a
body of water filled with mosquito larvae and algae.
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