Basic Principles Of Garden Design

In that same spirit my 12 principles of design are a bird by bird method of tackling the project of designing a garden.

Basic principles of garden design. This refers to the basic structure of the garden. That the garden for all its naturalness or wildness is founded on strong principles what s sometimes known in garden circles as good bones second that regulating lines at least as i employ them are subjective. Namely proportion transition and unity.

What you don t want is a garden that looks haphazard as though plants were plopped in wherever there was an available spot of soil. Order can be obtained through symmetry as in a formal garden through repetition of plants or colors or through balancing bold or bright features with a complementary weight of fine texture or muted features generally in a 1 3 bold to 2 3 fine ratio. Landscape plants should be arranged so as to conform to these principles.

These principles divide naturally into two main categories. First is the idea of underlying order. Proportion is the sense that the size of the individual components the landscape plants or groups of components in a landscape is consistent with the landscape as a whole.

Enclosure a garden room defined by borders of various materials.