Flower Landscape Garden Design Making a landscape garden design implies grafting a plant for each walkway, garden bed, tree, rock, and blade of grass to create the perfect outdoor space. This can seem like an overwhelming or daunting task, but it doesn''t have to be. There are very basic forms that can be followed to make the space seem just right without taking so much work that it isn''t fun anymore. Themed Gardens Most landscape garden designs are based on a theme of some sort; it could be birds, relaxation, fragrance, a favorite plant or flower, a favorite color, or just about anything else. The point of a theme is to create a pattern and point of interest with in the landscape garden design to hold the viewer''s attention. This can be accomplished subtlety or with obvious focal point. The key is pattern and repetition. The human eye likes to see pattern and repeating patterns; this can be accomplished in landscape garden design with color, size, species, or with an external commonality such as an animal the plants will attract. Color is an important tool for landscape garden design, using bright cheery colors can create an [more..]

A garden can be a thing of beauty: provided a little care and attention goes into its creation. That's where landscape garden designs come into play – the difference between creating a garden in a considered fashion and just letting things grow. With a little forward thought and planning, any outside space can become a glorious addition to house or home. The difference between a planned garden, or a properly planned garden, and a non planned garden, is this: when you plan, you are able to give a natural effect much better than if you just throw things together and hope for the best. That's because a garden is a defined space, usually bordered by a hedge or a fence. Nature is undefined, and so looks "right" when things just grow where they fall: a garden, which is humanity's attempt at capturing nature in an easy to swallow format, only really looks correct if it has been planned in advance. Landscape garden design, which produces a sensible plan for every part of a garden, so all its elements can be considered as a flowing whole, allow homeowners to reproduce nature in miniature [more..]

Every garden has a bit of fantasy in it and, for Houstonians longing for the look and feel of, say, Tuscany or the Italian Renaissance period, no garden fills that desire like a Mediterranean landscape design.Combining elegant elements of nature with the relaxed Mediterranean culture, the Mediterranean landscape design can go from simple, yet cultivated to elaborate lavishness. Crystal clear water and outdoor water fountains, sweet herbs right off the vine to be used in outdoor kitchens, relaxed spaces for entertainment, and lush, practical vegetation characterized the Mediterranean landscape design.Just as a rose by any other name smells sweet, so too the Mediterranean landscape design. It is known variously as Andalusian, Santa Barbara Revival, Tuscan and Moroccan styles. Primarily taking its name from the climate of the Mediterranean region and southern Europe, it falls midway between the broad formal and informal garden design categories. The influences of classic landscape design can clearly be seen in this style due to the proximity and prominence of ancient Rome.Mediterranean Landscape Design-Through HistoryThe Mediterranean landscapes originated in ancient Arabia and evolved, as all garden styles have, throughout the centuries. [more..]

Many people enjoy gardening and caring for their lawns as a hobby, making a beautiful outdoor space with one's own thoughts, ideas, and work is very rewarding. Making a beautiful landscape garden design can be difficult for new gardeners or for some experienced gardeners as well.Making a landscape garden design implies grafting a plant for each walkway, garden bed, tree, rock, and blade of grass to create the perfect outdoor space. This can seem like an overwhelming or daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. There are very basic forms that can be followed to make the space seem just right without taking so much work that it isn't fun anymore.Themed GardensMost landscape garden designs are based on a theme of some sort; it could be birds, relaxation, fragrance, a favorite plant or flower, a favorite color, or just about anything else. The point of a theme is to create a pattern and point of interest with in the landscape garden design to hold the viewer's attention.This can be accomplished subtlety or with obvious focal point. The key is pattern and repetition. The human [more..]

  To beautify your home and enhance your landscape, why not decorate with a display of garden ornaments? Embellishing your outdoor space doesn't have to be a large expense or take hours of labor to accomplish. A garden fountain, wind chime, garden stake or birdhouse is a perfect adornment for any yard scape. These garden ornaments can be bought very reasonable and won't take much effort to place them in your outdoor space.         Picture walking through your backdoor into your garden area looking down a path. You see a birdhouse with a feathered family peeping from inside the hole. Beyond that you hear the trickling sound of water flowing over on a garden fountain. As you stroll on a little farther you see a garden statue rising above your beautiful flowers. There might be a slumbering gnome statue or an angelic cherub to promote peace, love and innocence. A bouncy butterfly garden stake or colorful wind spinner is leading the way, as you follow stepping stones heading for the garden bench that awaits you at the end.. You hear the sound of wind chimes tingling in the gentle breeze. All of [more..]

Landscaping is a very rewarding job that is often overlooked by people. In spite of this, many other individuals want to learn home landscape design in order to fulfill their wish to be able to create beautiful yards. Learning about home landscape design is actually not a full course in which you have to spend several years to perfect. Some people have this instinctive eye for great design ideas in spite not having taken any home landscape design courses. Aspects of Home Landscape Design Home landscape design actually has several aspects under it. These aspects include backyard design, pocket garden design, formal landscaping, informal landscaping and others. Even the front yard or front lawn is sometimes included in home landscape design. There are several differences with the designs mentioned earlier and these have something to do with how the homeowners expect their areas to look like. Home landscape design often falls into two very loose categories which are formal and informal landscaping. As the terms mention, the rigidity of a formal landscape is vastly different from the informal one. Formal gardens usually have geometric design [more..]

Contemporary Landscape Design is a melding of the old and the new.Unlike modern-it utilizes traditional approaches to space with newer finishes or applied technologies. Without realizing it, contemporary design exists everywhere such as in a 60's home remodel or a new classic home with modern finishes-the slicker look of all stainless steel appliances. It could be thought of as reinvigorating the old with clearer function new materials, technologies while creating the simplicity and beauty and organic in the new.Creating Contemporary Landscape DesignAs a design form, the contemporary may work with a classic landscape design form based on axial relationships or a modern landscape design. Within the classic garden design foundation contemporary would include updating design form and simplifying materials. Within the modern landscape design, the contemporary would add a more humanistic approach to the use of space rather than pure focus on form or add more detail in finishes to "warm up the space".Form and Function in Contemporary Landscape DesignAs in Modern Landscape Design, it is still important that form follows function. In fact this is an important maxim for contemporary design especially in a [more..]