Many people enjoy gardening and caring for their lawns as a hobby, making a beautiful outdoor space with one’s own thoughts, ideas, and work is very rewarding. Making a beautiful landscape garden design can be difficult for new gardeners or for some experienced gardeners as well.
Making a landscape garden design implies grafting a plant for each walkway, garden bed, tree, rock, and blade of grass to create the perfect outdoor space. This can seem like an overwhelming or daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. There are very basic forms that can be followed to make the space seem just right without taking so much work that it isn’t fun anymore.
Themed Gardens
Most landscape garden designs are based on a theme of some sort; it could be birds, relaxation, fragrance, a favorite plant or flower, a favorite color, or just about anything else. The point of a theme is to create a pattern and point of interest with in the landscape garden design to hold the viewer’s attention.
This can be accomplished subtlety or with obvious focal point. The key is pattern and repetition. The human eye likes to see pattern and repeating patterns; this can be accomplished in landscape garden design with color, size, species, or with an external commonality such as an animal the plants will attract.
Color is an important tool for landscape garden design, using bright cheery colors can create an entirely different feel than more subdued cool colors or neutral colors. Using bright colors in combination with cools or neutrals can enhance an overall theme.
If the subject of the landscape garden design were to attract butterflies, the garden beds could reflect this by creating floral wings on each side of the garden path, filled with flowers and plants butterflies need to grow and breed. To enhance the butterfly feel even further the colors used in the floral wings could reflect the butterflies the garden is meant to attract in color as well as shape.
Most landscape garden designs allow for paths and section planting areas into beds or by other likenesses. To create a unique garden space one can create lines with plant height, plant color, plant type, and the garden paths to create an over all affect that is pleasing to the gardener and their guests.
Using the butterfly garden example, choosing the plants a particular species of butterfly prefers and working around those colors, pairing it with like colors or plant heights can create dimension or a pattern within a pattern, which will give the garden a unique effect.
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Best landscape/garden design and construction course?Im looking to do a landscape/garden design and construction course at a college in England, does anyone know the best courses or colleges that do this sort of thing.
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Bluish foliage and blue or purple flowers give an illusion of more space and distance than you really have. You also need fine textured foliage. No broad bold leaves for this part of the garden. Hydrangea and wisteria are too course. A fine-textured ivy would be good. It cound attach itself to the grey block and then eventually twine itself between the chainlink fence. Fine ivies comes in various shapes and variegations which might provide some variation. To avoid drawing too much attention to the fence, do not plant them in any distinguishable pattern. A cool annual vine that can be bought on the internet is called Butterfly Pea. It has beautiful blue flowers. Another very fine-textured and attractive annual vine is Cypress Vine, but it has 1/2 inch red flowers, which may be too bold a color for this area. Carolina and Swamp Jessamine are American Native vines that have a medium to fine texture and yellow flowers. Swamp Jessamine blooms in spring and fall, and Carolina only in spring, but Carolina Jessamine is fragrant. One other scrambling plant that might work is the Climbing Aster, Aster carolinianus. It has a fine texture, and it is covered with excellent soft lavender 1" daisy-like flowers every fall.
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