How To Create A Unique Garden

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Features of your garden design

Historically, all novice gardeners dream of conquering unbridled wilderness, creating a wonderful landscape, order and harmony around themselves. When creating a garden design, there is interest in juxtaposing contrasting elements.

Your ownership plan may include wooded areas at the border, a sunny back garden, a perennial flower bed, and more.

The first defining principle of garden design is the perception of unity - when all the elements of the garden are combined into a single coordinated composition. These elements include the materials and plants used to create the garden, as well as their position in relation to each other.

Unity can be accomplished in several ways. First, the style of home and garden can complement each other. For example, a typical home is surrounded by a formal garden. The material of the house and other objects on the site should be of the same type. For example, a large brick house must have a brick fence. Likewise, a wooden house should be accompanied by a wooden hedge.

The material used must correspond to the natural conditions of the area. So, on the seashore with stone shores or in rocky terrain, rough stone is widely used to create hedges, rockeries, etc. A floral border will also beautify the inclusion of several large stones.

Another approach to creating cohesion is repeating existing lines, shapes, textures or color schemes on the site. You can create a decorative curve for an arched pathway entrance, a curving outline of a flower bed, or round the edge of a patio.

The repetition of the colors of leaves and flowers is a well-

known technique when creating today's border. Visual rhythms will accompany you as you move from one point of the composition to another.

Lastly, you will enhance the unity of your plan by adding strong focal points for your garden orientation.

As a rule, gardeners, when creating their garden, avoid great difficulties and try to form it as open and simple as possible.

Simplicity is another principle of garden design. A large number of decorative elements, many focal points, wonderful plants and other materials can easily create confusion, chaos. Even if you intend to create multi-focal places, try to keep them simple.

The unified structures of all elements of the landscape - a reception room, outdoor areas for entertainment, games and household chores, a grassy garden terrace - form a successful design. Each functional area is covered with a curb of herbaceous plants and shrubs.

It is necessary to provide for clean paths or transitional areas along which you can easily move from one part of the site to another.

Proportions and sizes

Proportion is the

ratio of the sizes of individual parts of a whole. Size is the measurement of one object. In a garden, we relate the size of objects and individual locations to the size of a person (or a tree trunk). For example, an ordinary tree against a flower looks like a perfect grove. The alpine plants in rocky gardens are tiny, while the usual small tree nearby is huge. Basics of proportion in the design are meant to contribute to the mood of the garden. For example, a garden seems squeezed, cramped if it includes disproportionate high elements - a building, a fence, a hedge. Planting small trees and shrubs in a large garden around the building will neutralize its height.

Designers welcome vertical elements that do not exceed human height - trellises, trellises, fences or hedges - in this case, the garden evokes a feeling of a welcome, warm welcome and safety.

The proportions in the garden should be in everything. For example, flowers in a border are usually arranged in height. The tallest are in the side or background, and the lowest are in the foreground. Likewise, your home in relation to your garden objects is a determining factor for the size of nearby trees and structural elements. They should be proportional to the size of your home.

When constructing a garden, one must remember that the size of the objects must also correspond to the distance between them. For example, to assess the attractiveness of a perennial border, the distance from its viewpoint should be at least half the width of the border.

Examine the relative size of all objects,

including plantings, in the garden. Determine their balance, make sure that the compositions are harmonious, the shapes, textures and colors you like.

Harmony and contrast

Good garden design is based on a balance between harmony and contrast.

Close tones of color schemes, similar textures of leaves and flowers, forms of plants create delicate mixtures and a harmonious accord, but lose in originality. In contrasting groupings, plants complement each other. In one-color compositions, texture contrasts are especially effective. In a shady wooded garden, for example, laced fern and astilbe leaves are contrasted with smooth-leaved hosts and upward-looking iris blades. Vigorous yellow daylilies glow next to the dark host. When planning your garden, keep in mind that many contrasting plantings can appear chaotic and messy. Even a small contrast can look monotonous. Everything should be in moderation. Start by matching, placing plants next to each other, find the desired arrangement. Fence off functional places by creating structural blocks. Balance the proportions of empty and occupied spaces and plan to connect them together.

Likewise, create an interesting contrast between light and shadow. They can be used to organize individual locations. Each of them has its own purpose, such as, for example, a shaded terrace for reading and entertainment. Sunny place - swimming pool. Use the contrast between the light space of the lawn and the darkness of the shaded area. A wooded landscape with a wandering shadow - for walking. At night, artificial lighting from a carved stump or other stationary object in the garden is very effective.

Harmony and contrast are also used in separating and arranging plants in the garden. The most important point in creating a design is the use of the shape and structure of plants, their characteristic features. Plants are round, outstretched, ground cover, vase-shaped, climbing, cone-shaped, spire-shaped, columnar. These differently shaped plants can be combined to create interesting designs. In dry gardens, low tagetes and silvery ground cover plants that mimic summer snow can be used to contrast with erect plants such as delphiniums, goldenrod, phlox and others.

Do not neglect other sensations and

contemplation in your garden - the contrasts of grasses in the swampy part of the forest, the sudden scent of rose bushes in bloom and the light noise of a bubbling fountain, the sound of a waterfall in a stream.

A spring, pond, or pool adds coolness to the landscape and can be a good decorative focal point. The soothing jets of water hide unwanted background noise and create a calm atmosphere. If the site does not have a natural source of water, one should be created. It is possible to simulate a current or waterfall using a simple pump recirculation. Raise water from the pool to a high point, and from there it will drain on its own. All these will help to decorate your garden.

Landscaping is a natural model. Landscaped gardens can be of various types. It makes sense that they look natural. One of them is shady with a winding stream. A dry ravine of river stones at the bottom. It imitates the flow, bends around the arrays of irises, daylilies, panicles of astilba, coreopsis. This current ridge is of practical importance as a boundary and as a drainage channel. Double pink poppies, yellow evening primrose, pink phlox thickets grow on the banks of the pool.

Another type is a gorgeous dry area bordering the forest, with contrasting plant structures. An option is possible with the use of various functional zones of stone sections or slabs as fences, with which paths are laid from the patio to the walkway, lawn or transition to a wooded area. To improve landscape design, you can plant a small grove of trees.

In nature, plants and stones tend to group together. It's the same in the garden. You have a group of trees as a focal point, perennial flower beds, rocks in rockeries, or groups of bulbous plants on a lawn.

Finally, the tall trees reach the height of the house and cover the roof and sheds with leaves. Low shade-loving trees and bushes, herbaceous plants typical for shade can be planted under the eaves. In the lowlands there will be flowers and ground cover plants.

Together, all these objects of indefinite shape, combined into a single whole, form a harmonious natural garden design.