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Landscaping
and Garden Styles
- Gardening
is the planting and growing of plants such as flowers, vegetables, fruits,
shrubs and trees. It is most often done in one's own yard, and the designer may
strive for many different things such as color, privacy, relaxing, or want to
create a piece of art, but gardens are also able to exist on roofs, porches, in
pots, and in greenhouses. Gardens can be meticulously planned and designed, or
done at random. Gardening can be a form of art or exercise, and can be done with
different intent and desired out come. It is therapeutic in its own way.
Your first consideration when starting a new landscaping project is style.
The style of your landscape should match the style of your house, but it's also
a reflection on your personality.
This page showcases a variety of developed and distinct landscape styles, so you
can see the possibilities for your yard.
Style Options:
Formal Style
- This garden illustrates the formal
style of straight lines and wonderful geometrical forms. The plantings seem here
are organized, and are not haphazard, and they are carefully maintained and
pruned to uphold the formal result.
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Informal Style:
Informal style gardens have a
cozier look then a formal style garden. Flowerbeds have a curving edge instead
of straight lines, and the plants appear to be casually placed. View Detail
English
Garden Style:
English gardens are
created to go with the structural design of the house. English gardens feature
mass plantings of perennials and shrubs. View Detail
Formal/Informal Garden Style:
Appearing in this garden is
the additional of a formal brick pathway that goes to a circle of plants in the
back. However, the shrubs and flowers are arranged like an English garden with
heap of plantings of annuals and perennials, and with no formal border.
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Oriental Style: This
garden was planted in a smaller backyard of a townhouse. It is an oriental style
garden created by the use of evergreens, water, and rocks. Many diverse plants
were used to create several perspectives.
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Woodland Style: This
garden style blends in with the wooded backyard and the sloped land. The
waterfall appears to be natural, but it is actually fabricated and it functions
by re-circulating the water. Strive to picture if your ideas would merge with
other yards in your neighborhood. There is a definite value in keeping a visual
connection between houses. In actuality, you might want to include some of your
neighbor’s design into your own backyard to maintain continuity.
Landscape Function: After
you
have settled on the design of your landscape, then think about what you
would like the new design to do for your home and backyard. The purpose of your
landscape could be to make new areas for recreation and relaxation, increased
privacy, block the wind, street noise, sun, or to enhance the look of your home.
If you have huge windows or French Doors, consider how you can enhance the view
from the inside. You could bring the outdoors into your home. You could use
shrubs to conceal a patio just outside the French Doors. Picture a concealed
patio with a small water fountain where you can take a seat and take pleasure in
the sounds of nature. You may also want to improve the view from a patio, deck,
or a porch. You can also make an outdoor seating area.
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