Category Archives for Landscape Design
Shrub and Tree Gardens
Shrubs and decorative trees give a garden permanence, but they do a great deal more than that. They add a new dimension: they give it height and a sense of space. They help to bind the garden together, giving it … Continue reading
Re-planning an Old Garden
Creating a new garden from an old one can be more of a headache than starting from scratch. It is likely that the plot will be cluttered and untidy and possibly badly neglected. Once proud trees and fine shrubs will … Continue reading
Ideas for a Garden Design: Glades, Paths, Flower Beds and Borders
Glades A suggestion for the far section of the garden is a pleasant, peaceful glade — a feature that is easy to make and to maintain. What is more, glades may be made on level or sloping ground, and may … Continue reading
Large Garden Designs
There are two ways of looking at gardens. Either they may be regarded as in-fills to architecture, spaces that the architect or builder either didn’t have the imagination or the intelligence to fill, in which case the plants are an … Continue reading
Planning Your Garden Design
Planning Having made some notes on the site, and having listed the main features desired, the time has come to start planning. Equip yourself with a thick pencil and several sheets of mathematical paper (you will need several because planning … Continue reading
Starting the Landscape Design in Your New Garden
Ground-work Give plenty of time and thought to these early deliberations because they can save much regret and work later. However, the time has come to put theory into practice and make first contact with the soil. If the garden … Continue reading
Bold Garden Beds and Borders
Be Bold in the Garden Border The keen gardener will always garden on the borderlines of what it is possible and safe to grow. I’m sure this is the right attitude. If you get five or six years of pleasure, … Continue reading
Designing a Garden – The Professional Touch for Garden Landscapes
The Professional Touch There are certain techniques of planning that can be applied to lift your garden out of the ordinary at the initial stages of designing a garden. The first of these is to apply an axis — … Continue reading
Garden Design Ideas and Gardening Ideas
The Luxury Touch Gardeners by nature are preoccupied with the down-to-earth. Whatever flight of fancy their horticultural ambitions inspire, their feet remain firmly planted on the ground. Their concern is always with the basic realities and they are, perhaps, more … Continue reading
Nature Gardens – Garden Landscape Design Ideas
Nature Gardens Because of the growing interest in natural history, many people have made natural gardens in the hope of encouraging birds and other animals to establish homes there, but the results vary considerably. Someone living in a town naturally … Continue reading