How To Design My Landscape.

I  think that I really need to sit down and get my mind on exactly what I want in my landscape and how I want to have it look.

There are several different things that I can go by in making up my mind on my design of my landscape.

1. Color

There are many  different types of colors that I can use I can use tints, tones and hues. They also have complementary and contrasting color, along with primaries and pastels. All of these different types of colors are a part of the color equation. I can use a lot of the different colors or I can keep it simple, it is up to my own personal taste.

2. Texture

Texture comes in many different types such as soft, rough, smooth, prickly, fuzzy, or glossy. If I want contrast then  mix the delicate with the bold, or soft with the rough. Flowers, bark, foilage, and hardscaping materials all have texture.

3. Scent

To me the sweet scent of some  plants such as roses, jasmine, daphne, rosemary, or lilac are worth the effort to plant them in my landscape such as near a window and close to my outdoor seating areas. It is always nice to grow plants that are  fragrant for every season, so I will be able to enjoy the scents all year long.

4. Sound

There are many different kinds of sound that I can put in my design of my landscape. Some of them are chirping of birds, the tricking sound of water from a stream, the splash of a fountain, the rustling of leaves on a windy dry, or the soft melody of a windchimes can soothe the soul and drown out distraction.

5. Touch

Touch can be with the feel of different plants as well as, the feel of polished pebbles, aged wood, and other nonplant materials.

6. Function

In this, I will need to figure out what I will have in this area. Always design this area with a purpose whether it will be for growing vegetables, a child's  play area. I might want to make this area into an outdoor where I can have my patio set and my grill. Also some people also has a fire pit in this area.

7. Light

Always check out the patterns of light and shadows that is in my garden. For the hot summer days, I can build an arbor that can create a shady spot to relax in.

8. Pattern

There are many different  designs or patterns that I can create in the garden. Some of the patterns that I can have in my garden are brick paving, knot gardens, picket fences and boxwood parterres.

9.  Form

Plants may be columnar, rounded, spreading, billowing, upright or fountainlike. Hardscaping materials and garden ornaments have form too that can be used in designing my landscape.

10. Contrast

I can contrast texture, color, light and form. Contrast attracts attention and always pleases the eye. A little of contrast is soothing and a whole lot is stimulating.

11. Perspective

Perspective changes the way a garden looks, either throught a window or from a deck.

12. Motion

There are many different ways that motion gives life to my garden, such as, water running through my garden, birds flying from tree to tree, and butterflies flying over flower heads.

13. Movement

There are many different  types of movements that I might have in my garden, such as having a lot straight  paths or maybe curving paths. This is a situation where  form follows functions.

14. Change

Always plan for changes in my garden. Perennials spread a whole lot bigger. Trees grows tall, that creates shade where the sun used to be. Welcome change to my garden and always plan for change.

15.  Aspect

Remember that what is shady  in one season will be sunny. All of this is a matter of personal taste.

16.  Personality

Put different things that shows people what has special meaning to you, and that can be many different things.

17. Focal Points

There are many different focal points that I can use in my garden, such as, waterfalls, a container with plants in it, and many others ways.

18. Ecolory

I can grow some native plants in my garden and also invite wildlife to my garden.

19. Scense  Of Places

I use different materials in my garden that makes the garden, mine. I always add my own personality, so the garden will be mine.

20 AArchitecture

Whatever I have with my house's architecture I will put the same in my garden.

Summary

There are many different things that I need to work all of them into my garden.