Designing The Garden
How to Design Best Garden
Most people don’t give due consideration when designing a garden. The planning of garden design starts from two important factors Design and Color. The design layout, colors, plants and flowers will make your garden beautiful or an average garden. To understand this concept one has to understand why design and structure of garden is important? It is common to spot rose and tulip gardens. Some gardens just look more beautiful then others because of their layout and texture. The reason is simple those garden have better layout and combination of flowers and their color complements the design of gardens. Growing same flowers, plants in groups in a crafted layout will present eye catching view much to delight of garden owner.
The important factors to remember for garden design is a better framework, which covers size, shape, color and texture of plants and flowers. If due consideration is not given on these points, it will lead to disordered garden.
How to Plan for Garden Design
First thing take garden design as serious as you will take designing a house. In designing a house you will take care of rooms, kitchen, garage, guest room, bathrooms, hallway, ceiling, ventilation and water drainage to ensure your house is good for living and also it looks good from outside appearance. Similarly one needs to create thoughtful plan to design beautiful garden. Before starting to plant flowers, trees and flowers one needs to pay attention to lawn size, shape of plot, paths, walkways, hedges, trees, fences and walls. All this is important to design garden.
There are five points which are essential in designing garden. First locate the viewing point for your garden from which the garden will be viewed most. Once you find the point then you can work on details such as what part of garden can be highlighted with plants, flowers or trees. Next decide on shape of your garden which best fits to garden along with what flowers/plants/trees to grow or not. Next you can choose style of garden formal or informal. Next in line is to take your ideas to drawing board and draw few design with variations. Lastly choose your best design and choose set of plants, flowers and trees to go with it.
Five Reasons for Best Garden Design
1. Determine Your Viewpoints
2. Considering Shape and Topography
3. Formal versus Informal Design
4. Mapping the Garden
5. Choosing Plants.
Ref: Ortho’s complete guide to “Successful Gardening” (Project Editor: Barbara Ferguson, Project Writer: Deni W. Stein, Art Director: James Stockton)