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Hidden Costs of Landscaping
A complete makeover of your home’s landscape may not be possible. After all, there is no surprise that if you choose to completely re-do your landscape you will spend a great deal of money. However, there are surprising hidden costs in nearly any...
Layer Your Plantings
Part three in a series In our last article, we helped you layout your new landscape. In this article we’ll explore which plants to put where and what makes an effective landscape. If you think of your landscape as a stage, you can easily imagine...
The Advantages of Edible Landscaping
There are many advantages to participating in the practice of edible landscaping. As one might imagine, edible landscape elements are those that can be used for food, as well as for ornamental beauty. Vegetables, herbs, and fruits can add variety...
The Good, the Bad and the Buggy
Bugs! Most of us got over liking them somewhere around the age of 12 after the ant farm went belly up and we began to appreciate how annoying mosquitoes, wasps and chiggers could be. Then as adults, we learned to despise roaches, gnats and the...
Wooden Garden Furniture
Wooden Garden Furniture can be the ideal solution to various seating problems in your garden. You can add new seating areas to your garden by perhaps turning a path into a destination for a sit down or consider adding a few pieces of wooden...
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Landscape Design - Creating Balance In Home Landscaping
Balance is a principle of all art forms, design, and even
landscape design. It implies a sense of equality. And while
there may be just a little more to it, this is how I explain it
to make it easier for first timers and do it yourselfers to
understand.
A garden, landscape, or any form of equal proportions would
naturally feel and look balanced. However, most gardens and
landscapes are not exact or symmetrical in shape and form.
They're asymmetrical and abstract in form and are often without
any natural balance of their own. So landscaping often relies on
other elements to create balance and harmony through unity.
Many times, a lack of balance is directly related to a lack of
repetition. Repeating alike elements such as plants or rocks
throughout the landscape will help unify different areas to each
other. As little as one repeated matching plant group, color,
piece of decor, or hardscape can accomplish this.
A lack of balance is also created by placing too many or all non
matching elements throughout a landscape design. This can
sometimes seem cluttered and unkept when it grows in. In the
beginning of your design, plan for less, place just a few
matching plant groups throughout the garden, and keep decor
matching and to a minimum. You can add more later.
So many of the questions that I receive about landscape design
deal with the shape of a design . Shape is unique to each design
and will ultimately follow all necessary paths and your visions.
However, any shape or form can be filled with elements and still
be either dull, void, loud, cluttered, and unbalanced. Balance
isn't necessarily dependant on shape. It can be but
generally
it's not. So don't get too hung up on trying to even things out
entirely by shape.
Landscape design is an art form and so it deals with "all" the
same principles that other art forms use. Repetition, unity, and
balance are all principles of art that go hand in hand with each
other.
Architects use repetition in design by making doors, windows,
fixtures, trims, etc. the same sizes, shapes, and styles.
Imagine how your home would feel if every door, door frame,
window, and fixture were of different sizes, shapes, colors, and
types. It would be uncomfortable and chaotic.
And so it's the same with landscape design.
In order to create balance, appeal, and even comfort in a
landscape that is lacking, we need to create some form of
consistent repetition. As little as one matching element placed
on opposites can create a sense of unity and consistency. It's
easiest and most often created in the softscape (plants,
ornaments, lawn, decor, etc.). However, it should be considered
in the hardscape (walks, driveways, necessities, fences, walls,
raised beds, boundaries, etc.) of your drawn design plan.
You can discover more information on The Principles Of Landscape
Design at: The Principles Of Landscaping
About the author:
Written by Steve Boulden of The Landscape Design Site. To
discover more about the principles of landscape design, visit his
site at: http://www.the-la
ndscape-design-site.com
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