Getting Started with Garden and Patio Design
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Article by: Brian Dalton The art of managing outdoor , Variety In Garden Plants - How To Choose The Best Plants For Your Garden space Designing a patio , A Guide To Japanese Gardens - or a garden, , Compost: Food for the Soil is much like designing a living room , Teak Patio Furniture Will Dress Up Your Patio or a park. It's all about space, and how you use it. To start with, you have empty space with nothing in it. Then you add plants, , Building A Foot Bridge statues and other decorative items to fill that space and make it feel like a homey, comfortable space.. but wait! You don't want to actually fill it with stuff. Then it would look cluttered, which is not what you want. What you want is a balance between empty space and decorative items. The real issue, then, is how do you achieve that balance? Use Clustering to make the most of your outdoor , Selecting the Right Roses for Your Garden space The first mistake most people make when decorating , Take Another Look at Those Wild Surreptitious Weeds a patio, , Gardening With Climbing Roses backyard , Dog Days of Summer or garden , Building A Foot Bridge is to take their planters, fountains, statues, etc. and spread them out evenly to try to cover as much space as possible. This is especially tempting for those on a tight budget, since they may not be able to afford as many accessories , Growing Tea Herbs for Fun or Profit and accents as they would like. Spreading things out evenly, though, creates a boring space which doesn't give the eye anything in particular to focus on. It is much more pleasing to group your plants , Extreme Botany And The Glory of the Carnation and decor , The First-Time Vegetable Gardener -- Some Pathways to Success items into clusters, so that several items can be seen at once, in a friendly grouping, with empty space between providing variety. This way, your visitors' eyes can move easily and comfortably from one cluster to another - each cluster is distinct in character and the empty space between emphasizes their unique natures. , Dog Days of Summer Try to think of each plant, , Dog Days of Summer statue, plaque or other accent as having its own personality, and place , Lawn Mower Safety them together in groups that allow them to relate to each other in pleasing and complementary ways; place , This Autumn, Postpone the Winter Blues for Your Lawn two low flowering plants , Water Gardens That Upset The Neighbours on either side of a larger fern, or place , Natural Pond Filters - Let Nature Do the Hard Work! a small statue between a palm , Silk Trees and a vine - the possibilities are endless and are only limited by your creativity and imagination! Take your visitors on a journey Think about what a visitor will see as they enter and move through your patio, , The Perfect Fern for Shady Gardens garden , Summer ing Tips or backyard. , How To Plan A Garden What will catch their eye first? Once they've enjoyed looking at that, what will they look at next? Where will their attention be drawn, and where will that carry their feet? Professional designers , Understanding Soil Nutrients set up their spaces much like a story; the intent is to guide their visitors' attentions - and their bodies - through the space so that everything is seen and everything is enjoyed in an interesting and pleasing order. Try to create special accent zones to show off your most treasured items by placing them right in the visitor's path, , Summer Gardening Tips or by placing them at eye level, or by surrounding them with unique accessories , Caring for your Wrought-iron Furniture that set the entire cluster apart from the others. If you take a little time to consider what people will see and where they will go as they make their way through your garden , This Autumn, Postpone the Winter Blues for Your Lawn space, you'll find that creating a relaxing and pleasant garden , Variety In Plants - How To Choose The Best Plants For Your Garden or backyard , Hibiscus is just a matter of common sense! Don't neglect the vertical space It's easy to think about your outdoor , Water Gardens That Upset The Neighbours areas in terms of their ground or floor , Gardening With Climbing Roses space - the area where you can place , Testing Your Soil a plant , Dog Days of Summer stand, set a statue or fountain, or leave a path , Solar Residential Outdoor Lighting is Becoming the Product of Choice for Millions of Consumers for friends to walk - but you must also remember the space above the ground! In some ways, vertical space is even more important than ground space! Walls or fences can be beautified with the simple addition of a garden , Water s That Upset The Neighbours plaque, a wall , Caring for your Wrought-iron Furniture fountain or a planter on a shelf. If you want a more functional wall , Hardy Hibiscus item, try a garden , Spring Flowers thermometer. Training a vine or some ivy up a trellis is a great way to use some vertical space and create a sense of intimacy and privacy as well. Then, of course, there are the hanging items.. hanging plants , Revolutionary New Pond Combines Both Preformed Pond with Watercourse are a great way of lifting the eye up to a new vantage point and adding a vertical element to your green , Hardy Hibiscus space. Windchimes are a special prize, because they are not only a delight to the eye, but a treasure for the ears as well. Suncatchers also add a unique beauty with their ability to catch the sunlight and turn it into yet another decorative accent. When placing hanging decor, , Extreme Botany And The Glory of the Carnation think 'outside of the box'... hanging items can be part of the clusters you create with your plants , How to Grow Sweet Corn and statuary or they can hang by themselves, defining turning points along the garden , Solar Residential Outdoor Lighting is Becoming the Product of Choice for Millions of Consumers path or providing embellishment to the open space between clusters. There are so many ways to use vertical decor , The Perfect Fern for Shady Gardens I can only mention a few of them here: Hang them from eaves and overhangs to adorn borders, suspend them from awnings and overhead beams for a more enclosed and intimate effect, and if you have a tree , Two Answers to a Poinsettia FAQ: How Can I Get My Poinsettia to Rebloom? or two in your garden , How to Kill Poinsettia how about hanging a plant , Take Another Look at Those Wild Surreptitious Weeds from a branch or placing a planter in the crook of a bough? Now you're using clustering and vertical space at the same time by using a plant , Testing Your Soil to hold a plant! , Understanding Soil Nutrients Winged visitors - your mobile decorations! Birds are beautiful , Basic Swimming Pool Water Chemistry to look at and lovely to listen to, but most important to your garden , Outdoor Lighting Fixtures or patio , How to Grow Sweet Corn design, they move around on their own! Attract birds , Compost: Food for the Soil to your outdoor , A Guide To Japanese Gardens space and you'll have a constant variety of design , Testing Your Soil as they flit from branch to branch or light , Find Peace And Happiness Through Gardening and preen on a fountain or statue. Birds , Building A Foot Bridge are nature's own decor , Gardening With Climbing Roses and attracting them to your garden , How Vacuum Formed Molds Are Made or backyard , Gardening With Climbing Roses is easy.. just give them something to eat, a place , Understanding Soil Nutrients to bathe and somewhere to build a nest! Birdbaths and bird , This Autumn, Postpone the Winter Blues for Your Lawn feeders are excellent as statue items and ensure a steady supply of feathered friends as well. Bird , The First-Time Vegetable Gardener -- Some Pathways to Success houses are especially nice because they can be used for vertical space decoration as well as providing a comfortable place , Hibiscus for sparrows and starlings to nest or just to hang out for awhile! What's a garden , Selecting the Right Roses for Your or patio , Outdoor Lighting Fixtures without the beauty and song of birds? Dare to dream These three tips , Revolutionary New Pond Combines Both Preformed Pond with Watercourse are just the beginning of the process. They're intended to get you started thinking like a professional designer , Like Fall Flowers - A Tip To Care For Your Winter Garden Pond and considering the unlimited possibilities that your unused outdoor , Spring Flowers spaces present. Don't let your space lie dormant.. bring it to life with your own creativity, your own flair and with affordable garden , External vs. Submersible Pumps. Which One Should You Use? decor and accessories , Water Gardens That Upset The Neighbours from Springtime Gardens! , Getting Tulips to Bloom for Two Months in Your !Brian Dalton owns and maintains the Springtime Gardens , Plastic & Resin Patio Furniture – What You Don’t Know website, and spends countless happy hours decorating , Basic Swimming Pool Water Chemistry and maintaining his own patios , Caring for your Wrought-iron Furniture and container gardens. , Building A Foot Bridge Springtime Gardens , A Rather Shady Affair - Affordable Garden , Revolutionary New Pond Combines Both Preformed Pond with Watercourse and Patio , The Perfect Fern for Shady Gardens Decor Copyright 2005 BKD Enterprises |
  
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