The Basic Principles Of Landscape Design
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Article by: Steve Boulden Whether you plan , Wrought Iron Patio Furniture is Easy to Clean for Summer on "borrowing ideas" or plan , Leaf Blowers on creating your own landscaping , Multi Purpose Tree - Sugar Palm design, you should have at the very least a basic understanding of the principles of landscape , Plant A Simple Tea Garden design. This doesn't mean that you have to apply every principle to every part of your plan. , Rugosa Roses - Fragrant, Tough and Handsome Shrub Roses But just having an understanding of these principles will help you generate ideas and increase your creativity. Great landscaping , 101 lies in the eyes of the its creator. So, while the principles of landscape , The Garden Beckons design are great guidelines to follow, don't feel like they're the "have to rules" of landscaping. , BBQ Food is the Mental Cue that Summer is Here Abstract and creativity are allowed. Unity should be one of your main goals in your design. , Leaf Blowers It may be better understood and applied as consistency and repetition. Repetition creates unity by repeating alike elements like plants, , Gardening for Birds Part 2 plant , House Name Plates groups, or decor , Flower Delivery throughout the landscape. , Ginseng Benefits Consistency creates unity in the sense that some or all of the different elements of the landscape , Cultivating Plants In Your Garden...What To Watch Out For fit together to create a whole. Unity can be achieved by the consistency of character of elements in the design. , Multi Purpose Tree - Sugar Palm By character, I mean the height, size, texture, color , Gardening for Birds Part 2 schemes, etc. of different elements. A good example would be in the use of accent boulders. If you've ever seen a landscape , Add Color and Fragrance to Your Garden with the Korean Spice Viburnum design that had one large white , Ants! - 1,000,000,000,000,000 Invaders! round boulder here and another large red square granite boulder there and so on, then you've seen that unity wasn't created by this specific element. This is just one example but the principle applies to all other elements such as groups of plants , 5 Tips On Caring For A Bonsai Tree and materials. A simple way to create unity in your landscape , Fences is by creating themes. And one of the simplest ways to create themes is by using a little garden , Add Color and Fragrance to Your with the Korean Spice Viburnum decor or garden , Lawn Tractors Were Never a Chore statues. Creating a theme garden , African Violet Care is easier when it's related to something you're interested in or have a passion for. If you're into butterflies for instance, you could create a theme using plants , Multi Purpose Tree - Sugar Palm that attract butterflies as well as using statues, ornaments, and other decor , Want A View? Start Growing Orchids On Trees that are related to butterflies. Unity should be expressed through at least one element in your landscape , Abatement Consideration and Issues in Rural America and preferably more. Using elements to express a main idea through consistent style and a specific theme is what creates harmony. Simplicity is actually one of the principles in design , How to Read a Seed Catalog and art. It's one of the best guidelines you can follow as a beginner or do it yourselfer. Just keep things simple to begin with. You can do more later. Simplicity in planting, for instance, would be to pick two or three colors , The Secret to Pruning Apple Trees and repeat them throughout the garden , Growing Palms or landscape. , Landscaping 101 Keeping decor , Fuchsia procumbens to a minimum and within a specific theme as well as keeping hardscapes such as boulders consistent is also practicing simplicity. Balance in design is just as the word implies. Equality. There are basically two types of balance in landscape , Concrete Curb Landscaping design. Symmetrical and Asymmetrical. Symmetrical balance is where there are more or less equally spaced matching elements of the garden , Benches design. With a garden , 'Sir Cedric Morris' Hardy Geranium equally divided, both sides could share the same shape, form, plant , An Introduction To Vinyl Fences height, plant , Unique Flowers make a memorable gift! groupings, colors, , African Violet Care bed , Flower Delivery shapes, theme, etc. You may remember creating something like this when you were a kid in art class at school. Where you take a piece of paper, splash paint , To Repot - or Not! on it, fold it in half, unfold it, and then it magically creates an interesting symmetrical design. , Summer Vacation and Your Pond So symmetrical balance or design , Want A View? Start Growing Orchids On Trees is somewhat of a mirror image or reflection. Asymmetrical balance on the other hand is one of the principles of landscape , Concrete Curb Landscaping design that's a little more complex. While textures, forms, colors, , Growing Palms etc. may remain constant to create some unity, shapes and hardscapes may be more random. This form of balance often has separate or different themes with each having an equal but different type of attraction. A good example of this would be where bed , Summer Vacation and Your Pond shapes or paths , Gardening for Birds Part 2 differ on both sides of the dividing line. One side could be curvy with a sense of flow while the other side is straight, direct, and hard. This can also create a neat contrast. Flowing lines are pleasing to the eye but the bold contrast of a curve with a straight line can be very interesting. Asymmetrical balance isn't necessarily limited to just the shape of your garden. , Cultivating Plants In Your ...What To Watch Out For An example might be where one side of the garden , All About Hybrid Tea Roses is mostly large shade trees , Cattleya Orchid Plant - Why They Are Not Popular while the other side is predominately a lower growing , Gardening for Birds Part 2 flower garden , Keeping Houseplants Alive During Summer Vacation Droughts or even a mix of both examples. This is only limited to your imagination. Contrast and harmony can also be achieved using plants. , How to Plan and Successfully Grow Your Tulip Garden Fine foliage verses coarser foliage, round leaves verses spiked leaves as well as color , Summer Vacation and Your Pond compliments and contrasts. Plant , 'Sir Cedric Morris' Hardy Geranium height, color, , 5 Tips On Caring For A Bonsai Tree and texture may be varied from one area to the next but each area should stay consistent within its own theme. You'll hear me talk about "themes" a lot. Many successful do it yourself , Concrete Curb Landscaping designs follow a basic theme to achieve most of the principles of landscape , Growing Palms design described on this page. The proper use of plants , Beware of Toxic Mulch and garden , To Repot - or Not! decor or a mix of both is a simple way to achieve themes. Color adds the dimension of real life and interest to the landscape. , Cultivating Plants In Your Garden...What To Watch Out For Bright colors , Cultivating Plants In Your Garden...What To Watch Out For like reds, yellows and oranges seem to advance toward you and can actually make an object seem closer to you. Cool colors , The Truth About Geraniums like greens, , The Garden As Healer blues, , BBQ Food is the Mental Cue that Summer is Here and pastels seem to move away from you and can make an object seem farther from you. Grays, blacks, and whites , Seed Starting Tips are considered neutral colors , Garden Benches and are best used in the background with bright colors , How to Read a Seed Catalog in the foreground. However, to increase depth in a landscape, , Guaranteed Gladioli, Summer Colour that Returns you can use dark and coarse textured plants , Multi Purpose Tree - Sugar Palm in the foreground and use fine textured and light , Growing Palms colored plants , How to Read a Seed Catalog in the background. Color , Wrought Iron Patio Furniture is Easy to Clean for Summer s can also be used to direct your attention to a specific area of the garden. , BBQ Food is the Mental Cue that Summer is Here A bright display among cooler colors , Landscape Lighting With Solar Outdoor Lighting Fixtures is a Great Way to Save Money on Decorating would naturally catch the eye. Natural transition can be applied to avoid radical or abrupt changes , Add Value to Your Home - Landscaping in your landscape , Summer Vacation and Your Pond design. Transition is basically gradual change. , To Repot - or Not! It can best be illustrated in terms of plant , Glider Rocker Cushions - Fanastic Replacement Cushions for Your Favorite Adirondack Furniture height or color , Plant A Simple Tea Garden but can also be applied to all elements in the landscape , Plant A Simple Tea Garden including but not limited to textures, foliage shape or size, and the size and shape of different elements. In other words transition can be achieved by the gradual, ascending or descending, arrangement of different elements with varying textures, forms, colors, , The Garden Beckons or sizes. An example of a good transition would be a stair step effect from large trees , Concrete Curb Landscaping to medium trees , Concrete Curb Landscaping to shrubs , Cultivating Plants In Your Garden...What To Watch Out For to bedding plants. , Ants! - 1,000,000,000,000,000 Invaders! This example is where a little knowledge of proper plant , Concrete Curb Landscaping selection would come in handy. Transition is one of the principles of landscape , Gardening for Birds Part 2 design that can be used to "create illusions" in the landscape. , 5 Tips On Caring For A Bonsai Tree For example a transition from taller to shorter plants , Growing Palms can give a sense of depth and distance (like in a painting), making the garden , Want A View? Start Growing Orchids On Trees seem larger than it really is. A transition from shorter to taller plants , The Art Of Landscaping Your Garden could be used to frame a focal point to make it stand out and seem closer than it really is. Line is of the more structural principles of landscape , BBQ Food is the Mental Cue that Summer is Here design. It can mostly be related to the way beds, , 5 Tips On Caring For A Bonsai Tree walkways, and entryways move and flow. Straight lines are forceful and direct while curvy lines have a more natural, , Summer Vacation and Your Pond gentle, flowing effect. Proportion simply refers to the size of elements in relation to each other. Of all the principles of landscape , The Garden As Healer design, this one is quite obvious but still requires a little thought and planning. Most of the elements in landscape , BBQ Food is the Mental Cue that Summer is Here design can be intentionally planned to meet the proper proportions. For instance if you are creating a small courtyard garden, , Add Color and Fragrance to Your with the Korean Spice Viburnum an enormous seven foot garden , How to Plan and Successfully Grow Your Tulip statue placed in the center would be way out of proportion and a little tacky to say the least. Or a small four foot waterfall , Multi Purpose Tree - Sugar Palm and pond , The Art Of Landscaping Your Garden placed in the center of a large open yard , Glider Rocker Cushions - Fanastic Replacement Cushions for Your Favorite Adirondack Furniture would get lost in the expanse. Don't misunderstand this to mean that if you have a large yard , Beware of Toxic Mulch you can't have smaller features , The Art Of Landscaping Your Garden or garden , The As Healer decor. Proportion is relative and elements can be scaled to fit by creating different rooms , Plant A Simple Tea Garden in the garden. , Benches The goal is to create a pleasing relationship among the three dimensions of length, breadth, and depth or height. A small water , Fences feature can be proportionate if placed in a corner or on the edge of a large area and becomes a focal point of the larger area while creating its own distinct atmosphere. An entire room, , The Garden As Healer sitting area, or theme can be created around it. Other rooms , Lawn Tractors Were Never a Chore and themes can be created as well. See small gardens , Beware of Toxic Mulch for ideas on creating rooms , Unique Flowers make a memorable gift! and creating illusions. Also, special consideration and study should be given to proper plant , How to Plan and Successfully Grow Your Tulip Garden selection to avoid using plants , 5 Tips On Caring For A Bonsai Tree that are out of proportion. Repetition is directly related to unity. Its good to have a variety of elements and forms in the garden , Flower Delivery but repeating these elements gives variety expression. Unity is achieved by repeating objects or elements that are alike. Too many unrelated objects can make the garden , Growing Palms look cluttered and unplanned. There's a fine line here. It's possible that too much of one element can make a garden , Keeping Houseplants Alive During Summer Vacation Droughts or landscape , An Introduction To Vinyl Fences feel uninteresting, boring and monotonous. However, unity can still be created by using several different elements repeatedly. This in turn keeps the garden , Fences interesting. Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com
Written by Steve Boulden. Steve is the owner and chief designer , An Introduction To Vinyl Fences for S&S Designed Landscaping , Garden Benches in Carlsbad, NM. He is also the creator of The Landscape , Cultivating Plants In Your Garden...What To Watch Out For Design Site.com which offers free professional landscaping , To Repot - or Not! advice, tips, , Fences plans, , Growing Palms and ideas to do it yourselfers and homeowners. For more free landscaping , The Garden Beckons and garden , The Beckons ideas, visit his site at: www.the-landscape-design-site.com |
  
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