Useful Principles Of Garden Design

Design is an often misunderstood word. It can best be represented as the molding of ideas and features into a sensible and simple whole. Overleaf is an instance of a well-designed small garden (Jon and Verna’s garden in the television series) which combines a number of the basic principles of good design. Over-complication is the antithesis of good design but it is something from which far too many gardens suffer.

Simplicity brings with it a degree of constraint and this in turn imposes a sequence of planning that not only prevents confusion but gives the complete composition continuity. In basic terms, design is the creation of patterns and those patterns can be organized and planned in just the same way as you would tackle interior decoration inside the home.

The house is a logical starting point for any garden design as the building already has an architectural pattern which should be reflected in the paved areas, paths or patio that surround it. Here you can use a series of interlocking rectangles that project from the corners of the house or pick up the line of doors or windows. Crisp rectangular precast slabs, solid pieces of natural stone, or the pattern of brick paving, will all be perfect for reinforcing that link between house and garden.

Some Other factors can come into play here too, a color scheme inside the house can be retained out along an bordering wall, or plants can be sorted on either side of the glass of patio doors, cloaking and softening the division between inside and out.

Disjointed materials like crazy paving tend to be visually disturbed and while they may be fine for an affable sitting area towards the bottom of the garden, moderated by grass and planting, they are often too flaring to adjoin the building.

Just increasing distance from the house brings informality. In the middle and more distant parts of the garden you can start to use strong flowing curves that not only lead the eye away from those almost inevitable rectangular boundaries but furnish a real feeling of movement which can in turn make a feeling of greater space.

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