Garden Design Principles
Great structure and unifying elements will create a pretty picture but your garden can appear static.
Garden design principles. Flow transition or rhythm. The first six focus on building the framework or bones of the garden. Enclosure a garden room defined by borders of various materials.
Three principles of garden design apply to the overall feel of the landscape. These principles divide naturally into two main categories. Proportion is the sense that the size of the individual components the landscape plants or groups of components in a landscape is consistent with the landscape as a whole.
Landscape plants should be arranged so as to conform to these principles. That doesn t mean visitors viewing your garden should be darting their eyes about every which way. That the garden for all its naturalness or wildness is founded on strong principles what s sometimes known in garden circles as good bones second that regulating lines at least as i employ them are subjective.
To keep things interesting you need to keep the eye moving. It s the designer who identifies and manipulates them to create the garden.