You Know Your Garden needs updating…..
Can’t quite put your finger on what needs to be done?
Take a photo or two of your home from the curb. Looking at a photo can help you detect in an instant what is needed to be done with your landscape. It could be the lack of privacy or lack of a significant point of interest. If you would like some great opinions bring the photo in to Tuscan Garden Works, we have oodles of great ideas!
Privacy is usually a big issue and sometimes, as a homeowner, we don’t even know it. Your home, no matter how beautiful it is, sticks out like a sore thumb and it needs some help connecting it to Earth.
What are your needs?
The following are some common complaints by other homeowners:
Drivers-by can see our entire lot in one glance, straight through to the back fence! There is nothing to give intrigue.
The following tips can help you create your dream garden:
Plant something new this year- Have you seen the new vibrant Cone Flowers? (Echinacea purpurea) Some are doubled, some are bright new colors, some have added fringe. The Cone Flowers have done really well in my garden. The continue to come back year after year, the deer don’t particularly like them, and the seed heads are attractive all winter long.
Every homeowner’s landscape needs some vertical elements, especially if you are dealing with new landscape. Eventually the trees will grow up! If you have a mature landscape you’ll want to use garden sculpture, such as: trellises, obelisks, sun dials, birdbaths and such for focal points. Focal points can draw the eye into the center of a garden, or provide visual balance or contrast for the plants, enhancing them.
Using the Chinese Triangle
I was taught in a Landscape Design class to use the technique of planting in uneven triangles. Using the obtuse triangle (we called it the Chinese Triangle) for placement of three plants, shrubs or trees, makes a very pleasing design. Then by varying the height of three trees in a similar area is “dynamite” in a planting area!
This is really a Huraki’s Theorem- Is that why we call it a Chinese Triangle?
I’m sure this is more information than anyone wants to know, but doesn’t it make a stunning design!?
Consider using this 3 point positioning in the grand scale of things as well as in the minute details. As you observe your landscape and home from your curb, pick out three areas to develop that would enhance the entry way to your home.
You may find this one plant placement so successful, you’ll be asked by your friends and neighbors for your help!
Can’t quite put your finger on what needs to be done?
Take a photo or two of your home from the curb. Looking at a photo can help you detect in an instant what is needed to be done with your landscape. It could be the lack of privacy or lack of a significant point of interest. If you would like some great opinions bring the photo in to Tuscan Garden Works, we have oodles of great ideas!
Privacy is usually a big issue and sometimes, as a homeowner, we don’t even know it. Your home, no matter how beautiful it is, sticks out like a sore thumb and it needs some help connecting it to Earth.
What are your needs?
The following are some common complaints by other homeowners:
Drivers-by can see our entire lot in one glance, straight through to the back fence! There is nothing to give intrigue.
Our home needs to feel more welcoming.
There are ugly views; how can I make them disappear?
The summer sun is a scorcher and it’s hard to enjoy our patio.
The busy road is so noisy; it’s hard to enjoy our outdoor space.
We keep looking at our garden and it’s just plain boring; it probably needs structure.
The following tips can help you create your dream garden:
Room with a View
Stand in each room of your home and look out the windows. Which views do you like and which ones need repairing? Every yard has at least one feature that you don’t like. Maybe it’s the air conditioner unit, or a utility box or two or maybe the neighbor’s dog run. Whatever it is that ruins your view, there is something that can be done about it. On the other hand, if you have a spectacular view you need your landscape to show it off.
Make Spring Sing!
This is the perfect time to make plans for your outdoor spaces.
If there is budget enough for just one landscape improvement, I would get a bench and place it in your pathway. If you have no pathway, place it in your loveliest flowerbed. If you have no flowerbed…create one, right out in front so that it is most noticeable! Everyone likes to sit in the out-of-doors to enjoy the sights, sounds and fragrances. If you have no place to sit, there is no garden enjoyment.Money Magazine determined that landscaping offers an excellent return on investment. Actually it ranks top out of any home improvements. In addition, there was a study done by the American Society of Landscape Architects in conjunction with Money Magazine. A recovery value of 100% to 200% of landscaping costs can be gained when you sell you home.
Plant something new this year- Have you seen the new vibrant Cone Flowers? (Echinacea purpurea) Some are doubled, some are bright new colors, some have added fringe. The Cone Flowers have done really well in my garden. The continue to come back year after year, the deer don’t particularly like them, and the seed heads are attractive all winter long.
Every homeowner’s landscape needs some vertical elements, especially if you are dealing with new landscape. Eventually the trees will grow up! If you have a mature landscape you’ll want to use garden sculpture, such as: trellises, obelisks, sun dials, birdbaths and such for focal points. Focal points can draw the eye into the center of a garden, or provide visual balance or contrast for the plants, enhancing them.
Using the Chinese Triangle
I was taught in a Landscape Design class to use the technique of planting in uneven triangles. Using the obtuse triangle (we called it the Chinese Triangle) for placement of three plants, shrubs or trees, makes a very pleasing design. Then by varying the height of three trees in a similar area is “dynamite” in a planting area!
This is really a Huraki’s Theorem- Is that why we call it a Chinese Triangle?
I’m sure this is more information than anyone wants to know, but doesn’t it make a stunning design!?
Consider using this 3 point positioning in the grand scale of things as well as in the minute details. As you observe your landscape and home from your curb, pick out three areas to develop that would enhance the entry way to your home.
You may find this one plant placement so successful, you’ll be asked by your friends and neighbors for your help!
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