Natural Native Garden Design
A strong line in the landscape controls the viewer s eye better than any other design element.
Natural native garden design. Native planting designs promote thriving balanced and dynamic ecosystems in public landscapes and modern private gardens. Melbourne landscape designer sam cox has shaped his bushland garden to replicate a slice of nature. Line is extremely important to the native landscape.
The paths are made from castlemaine slate. If you are fortunate enough to live in an area surrounded by woods then a woodland garden will look right at home. When creating natural gardens try not to overlook the plant s leaves when choosing native garden plants.
A native garden means less lawn to mow less fertilizer and less watering. The masses of planting mounding and boulders are balanced with the voids of pathways ponds and pools says sam. Whether naturally elegant or fiercely wild the progressive integration of native plants sustains biodiversity and wildlife elevating landscape design into an ecological art.
Claire takacs australian house garden. The spiky texture of paleleaf yucca yucca pallida twisted yucca yucca rupicola or lindheimer muhly muhlenbergia lindheimeri lure the eye when placed in beds amongst the smaller finer texture of native plants such as salvia greggi salvia greggii and zexmenia wedelia hispada. Of course in keeping with the natural loosely managed spirit of a native garden the shape should be organic and irregular without straight edges.