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Smart landscaping can add an interesting touch to your lawn and enhance its curb appeal. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to have an impressive garden. Let’s look at some pointers to add texture, functionality, colours, and points of interest to your landscape. Round it off with eye-catching traditional metal garden edging, et voilà, your masterpiece is complete.
The principles of landscape design include the elements of unity, scale, balance, simplicity, variety, emphasis, and sequence as they apply to line, form, texture, and colour. These elements are interconnected.
All seasons allure
Evergreen shrubs retain leaves or needles throughout the year, providing coverage and colour consistently. Even in winter, this brings some interesting options to mind. Evergreen trees are best placed close to the house, such as at corners of your house to break the straight lines of the design and make it look more settled.
You can let these vertical lines blend in with the abstract shapes of evergreen trees and shrubs throughout the year. Your house will always have a charming look.
Walkways connect focal points
Don’t step on the lawn, over time this will just create a temporary withered grass path between the terrace and garden, rather install concrete steps or pour gravel to create a neat and functional sidewalk. Landscaping involves connecting focal points with subtle hints or functional elements like a footpath.
Recommended materials to use when building the path, sidewalk, or any other landscape should match the exterior of your house. Timber or brick and mortar have distinctly different looks. The feature must tie in, and similar material is used to aesthetically connect the house with the path. Or use the material to provide an eye-catching edge on the sidewalk.
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Break up a drab garden with a large stone
An easy way to make a bold statement with your lawn is to strategically place two large stones on it. We are talking about rocks that are too big to fit in the back of your car. Putting a boulder in the open spaces of your landscape will give it that edge that breaks the monotony.
Consult with professionals before deciding on what type of rock, they will guide you. It might become rather costly to end up having the stone delivered only then to realise it doesn’t fit. Planning is crucial to draw up a site plan and play around with ideas regarding size and placement. Take pictures from different angles and then decide yay or nay.
Use berms and mounds to add layers
One way to add vitality to the landscape is to build mounds or berms. Gardens tend to look flat if the lawn is your only reference point. Areas can be covered with rocks and cavities then filled with clay. Thereafter plant flowers or shrubs on it. Increase their height by constructing mounds in the corners. They are particularly effective to add detail to your unused space in the garden.
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” ~Doug Larson