6 Tips for Creating a Garden Oasis for All Seasons
Transforming your backyard into an all-season garden oasis offers the opportunity for you to enjoy the outdoors any time of the year. Imagine plants that bloom at different times providing a symphony of color and texture or a cozy outdoor kitchen and entertainment...
Hierarchy as a Landscape Design Element | Vol.3
Landscape Design Element: Hierarchy Hierarchy in landscape design is used to emphasize or highlight certain elements in the garden. Sometimes this emphasis is on an entry or another key feature. For hierarchy to be effective we need to set a standard, be it a size,...
Using Lines as a Landscape Design Element | Vol.2
Landscape Design Element: Line Using lines is one of the simplest design elements and the foundation to all others. A line is simply two connected dots that may be horizontal, vertical, straight, or curved. Lines may also be thick, thin, diagonal, and wavy. Lines...
Negative Space as a Landscape Design Element | Vol.1
Design around the world and throughout the ages has utilized universal principles that apply to all art forms whether it be painting, music, architecture, or garden design. This is a look at some of these basic design elements and how they apply in the landscape....