Garden Decor – Adding style to your garden
Sunday, April 12th, 2009Beyond the plants that you put in your garden there are lots of opportunities to bring a sense of style through decorating your garden area. The first place to start is with the design of the garden layout itself, then with the structures in the garden and then with the extra add-ons that you can place throughout the area.
Garden Design and layout form the backbone of your designs. There is a practical component of your garden layout that must come before the visual layout. The garden must be organized to group appropriate plants together and to place plants in the proper order for sunlight to reach them. You don’t want your corn blocking out all of the sunlight to the rest of your garden for example. You also need to account for access, water availability and other fixed landscaping elements.
You also need to think about the visually impact that your layout will have. Do you have lots of curves leading to very linear shapes? Or do you have areas that follow unique themes but don’t provide for a natural transition between them? How are you using your paths? Do they lead you and your eyes to pleasing destinations? The visual elements of a design can be one of the harder things to get right at the paper design stage but it is critically important to work on these elements before moving into construction.