A sense of balance is necessary in creating a professional looking landscape design. Creating balance and unity is simple and can actually make designing easier but it is often overlooked. Use these guidelines to simplify your design and to ensure that your garden or landscape has a professional finished look.
Some Practical Ideas For Designing You Own Landscape
Designing your own landscape, can be both exciting and challenging. If you are considering such a project, here are some practical ideas and suggestions.
Planning the Project
Planning your landscape design is the first and most important step. Take the time to gather the information you will need to make your decisions on the elements you wish to include in your landscape design. Will you want a deck, patio, foot paths, walkways, a pond? What type of plants, trees, flowers, and ground c
The Basic Principles Of Landscape Design
These are the same principles of landscape design that professionals use written so do-it-yourselfers can use and understand them.
Who Knew Home Landscaping For Energy Conservation Had This Effect?
If you have been thinking about how you would like to cut your home energy costs, you might want to take a second look at your home landscaping. This is an area you may not have even thought of. Did you know energy-efficient home landscaping can reduce your household’s energy consumption for heating and cooling by as much as 25 percent.!That’s staggering, isn’t it? Proper placement of trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, and hedges lets you modify the microclimate around your home …
Do It Yourself Landscape Design – Where To Begin
Heres one answer to an all too common home landscaping question. How do I start my design? Where do I begin?
Design Your Landscape Like A Professional – Think Layers!
Ever wonder why professional landscapes look so much better than the rest? In this article, I share the “secrets” of one of the main reasons why!