Garden Design For Awkward Spaces
We asked katrina wells of earth designs to come up with three solutions for three classic problems.
Garden design for awkward spaces. One of the most successful garden path ideas is to design one that sweeps around one side of a circular lawn drawing the eye to an area beyond. The beauty of an awkward shape garden are the angled leftover bits that you end up with once you ve got a very defined lawn shape in place. Recommended videos for you.
While rebeca knew about plants there isn t currently training in her country in garden design. You will see in the first example garden plan that we made use of the space with a stepping stone path winding its way through the garden. What can you do with such an awkward shaped garden.
This garden belongs to rebeca brenes a forestry engineer from costa rica. Make no mistake even professional designers would find this one challenging. A sloping site an l shaped garden and a tapering plot.
Design tip 3 use the leftover spaces creatively. This is a really tough garden to design. You will see in the first example garden plan that we made use of the space with a stepping stone path winding its way through the garden.
Our advice is to simplify the look of the garden where possible by using similar shades to unify the different elements such as decking paving and walls. Circles are a bold shape which will create a strong statement and draw the eye from an otherwise awkward shaped plot.