Garden designs that work well balance symmetry and asymmetry, proportion and scale, to achieve balanced gardens.
Eye-catching focal points make a landscape pop, whether sculpture, waterfall or individual piece of plants.
It is the practice of repetition which draws a design together; Mr Noble repeated, for example, a tall poplar at either end of his far garden.
Lines
A garden’s major design element is the line. They move things, orient the eyes and are centrepieces, and different types of lines have different messages.
Straight lines make a garden more formal and more structured, and wriggly curves make a garden seem organic and informal.
Focal Points must be planted in place along arcing/protruding design lines leaving gaps between design lines to be able to plant great. Smooth movements from one garden section to the next are designed to maintain continuity – you can do this through design lines, gradients and textural contrast.
Form
Form is how plants, buildings or things look in a garden. For form it can be geometric lines or natural forms in natural gardens: alike forms must cooperate to bring them into harmony.
A beautiful garden can be achieved by utilizing colour. It draws in guests at the right time of day – brighter colors are uplifting, while darker colours are tranquil.
The surfaces of a garden must have depth and should feel comfortable to walk on. There are surfaces, such as lawns, which offer nice surfaces for walking on, and there are forms like rocks or gravel, which are made with natural textures to represent the earthy landscape. Decorative surface surfaces can also be functional such as for draining in rain gardens.
Texture
The quality and texture of plants is the surface characteristics. Diversifying textures in your garden will help you create interest; sometimes we don’t think about this but it’s the kind of thing that breathes life into landscape, and engages the senses.
For instance, Selaginella (spike moss) and Nephrolepis exaltata (Boston fern) leaves are toothy leaves that are a perfect contrast with small or delicately feathered leaves such as roses, hydrangeas and coreopsis ‘Moonbeam’ leaves. And gritty tree bark is a great contrast with smooth flagstone or rock.
Garden design is all about form, form, line and texture. If you pay close attention to these elements, you will be on the path to achieve the outcomes that are right for you and your garden – gardens don’t look balanced and unfinished if you leave these design elements out.
Color
Garden design is no escape from colour. It can either be very energetic and energetic or calm and tranquil.
Color schemes can be from the simplistic to the elaborate. A simple color scheme is to have colors near each other on the color wheel (simultaneous), or at opposite ends of the wheel (complementary).
Complex pairings break complementary colours into their secondary counterparts – yellow-green with purple, red with coral bell. The tones and tints of each colour are equally part of garden compositions: the lighter ones bring forth more value gradations, softening extremes.
Plants and shrubs have their share of foliage, and perennials, shrubs and grasses are options with vivid foliage or bark that make for a striking garden display.
Focal Points
The focal points in gardens are the points that make the eye swoop up and over. From buildings such as gazebos or pergolas, artworks, fountains, ponds or a beautifully designed tree, to plants that are vibrant in colour, texture, shape or size that draw your eyes upward.
Focal points can be filled with something else (such as hedges or visual obstacles) to intensify the effect. Best hung near gate ways or intersections with roads for visitors and a sense of destination, some even become seen from inside your home to bring more garden glory inside! Any focus needs to flow into the rest of the garden, but not be dominant or omnipresent.
