Basic Principles Of Garden Design

These principles divide naturally into two main categories.

Basic principles of garden design. Three principles of garden design apply to the overall feel of the landscape. It s the designer who identifies and manipulates them to create 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.

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. In that same spirit my 12 principles of design are a bird by bird method of tackling the project of designing a garden. The first six focus on building the framework or bones of the garden.

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. Namely proportion transition and unity. Enclosure a garden room defined by borders of various materials.

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.