| Many people enjoy gardening and caring for their | | | | Color is an important tool for landscape garden |
| lawns as a hobby, making a beautiful outdoor | | | | design, using bright cheery colors can create an |
| space with one's own thoughts, ideas, and work is | | | | entirely different feel than more subdued cool |
| very rewarding. Making a beautiful landscape | | | | colors or neutral colors. Using bright colors in |
| garden design can be difficult for new gardeners | | | | combination with cools or neutrals can enhance an |
| or for some experienced gardeners as well. | | | | overall theme. |
| Making a landscape garden design implies grafting | | | | If the subject of the landscape garden design |
| a plant for each walkway, garden bed, tree, rock, | | | | were to attract butterflies, the garden beds could |
| and blade of grass to create the perfect outdoor | | | | reflect this by creating floral wings on each side |
| space. This can seem like an overwhelming or | | | | of the garden path, filled with flowers and plants |
| daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. There | | | | butterflies need to grow and breed. To enhance |
| are very basic forms that can be followed to | | | | the butterfly feel even further the colors used in |
| make the space seem just right without taking so | | | | the floral wings could reflect the butterflies the |
| much work that it isn't fun anymore. | | | | garden is meant to attract in color as well as |
| Themed Gardens | | | | shape. |
| Most landscape garden designs are based on a | | | | Most landscape garden designs allow for paths and |
| theme of some sort; it could be birds, relaxation, | | | | section planting areas into beds or by other |
| fragrance, a favorite plant or flower, a favorite | | | | likenesses. To create a unique garden space one |
| color, or just about anything else. The point of a | | | | can create lines with plant height, plant color, plant |
| theme is to create a pattern and point of interest | | | | type, and the garden paths to create an over all |
| with in the landscape garden design to hold the | | | | affect that is pleasing to the gardener and their |
| viewer's attention. | | | | guests. |
| This can be accomplished subtlety or with obvious | | | | Using the butterfly garden example, choosing the |
| focal point. The key is pattern and repetition. The | | | | plants a particular species of butterfly prefers and |
| human eye likes to see pattern and repeating | | | | working around those colors, pairing it with like |
| patterns; this can be accomplished in landscape | | | | colors or plant heights can create dimension or a |
| garden design with color, size, species, or with an | | | | pattern within a pattern, which will give the garden |
| external commonality such as an animal the plants | | | | a unique effect. |
| will attract. | | | | |