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Considering Garden Design in Your Flower Garden Part One

We have discussed Landscaping to Make the Most of Your Grounds around your home. Now we will consider your flower garden design a bit more as relates to the influences that may affect what you do with your flower garden.

For your flower garden design, first you must, as with your general landscaping, take a survey of your needs and make a list. Do you spend much time at home? Do you entertain much outdoors? Do you love flowers? What kinds? Do you like to work outdoors? Do you have children or animals in your life that have outdoor needs too? Does you or any member of the family have any hobbies or sports interests that must be taken into account? Are there any plants that just must be included in your flower garden?

Now take a survey what you have to work with and make another list. How large is the yard? What features are located where? What are the views in what directions? What views do you want to provide for and which do you wish to hide? What is the slope of your land? Which way does the water run? What type of sunlight do you receive where and how much? It is best if you can draw some type of plan that identifies most of these items. Draw in the house, the boundary lines, walks, driveways, phone or power poles, fences or whatever. It may be wise if you have underground utilities to indicate where they run on this drawing as well. Don't want to dig a deep hole for a tree right where the electric runs.

Now that you have the two lists - what you want and what you have - plus the layout drawing, you can begin to pare down or otherwise try to fit list one to list two. Who knows? Maybe you will have lots of room and paring down will not be needed.

As you begin this process, it might be well to decide what will be the dominating theme or character of the your landscaping and flower garden design. Will it be most appropriate to your lifestyle and taste to make it ultramodern, naturalistic, formal? Or will it be influenced by some foreign or ancient design? What is the architecture of your home and what type of flower garden will be most appropriate for it? When you are out and about, notice that the most satisfying plantings are those which conform to one scheme throughout with all the parts fitting together in unity.

Landscaping and flower garden design is an art just like painting, sculpture, music or architecture. Only difference is you work with living plants as well as hardscapes and you paint a living picture. All the basic rules of other forms of art apply here such as unity, balance, simplicity, scale, lines, proportion, rhythm, texture and color. (We will discuss these in a later article.) The best result for your flower garden design and landscaping is obtained when everything is arranged for the greatest amount of beauty at the same time retaining maximum utility.

© 2005, Sandra Dinkins-Wilson

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