Every good garden design owes its effectiveness to certain basic design principles. These rules apply to all levels of gardens, from a simple garden border to an elaborate classical design. Remember, in any well-designed garden no one feature, plant or structure is completely dominate. Instead, all features work together to establish a sense of unity.
A. Repetition: Repeat certain plants, textures or colors.
B. Simplicity: This is the result of constraint. It keeps your design from being cluttered and unfocused.
C. Unity: A unified design ensures that the garden reads as one whole design rather than a hodgepodge of separate elements.
D. Scale: Scale refers to the balance between sizes of various elements, which includes the house, walkways, paths, fences, garden beds and plantings. No one element or feature should overpower all of the others.
-Gizmo Creations
The staff of Gizmo Creations LLC has been involved in landscape design for over 20 years. They have a licensed landscape architect on staff who studied landscape architecture at Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa).
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