Entry Garden Design Is Important To Home Architecture

Entry Garden Design Is Important To Home Architecture
Entry gardens are extremely important to both home architecture and general landscape design. They serve as transition areas between indoor living space and outdoor landscape designs. These transition areas are not merely places to pass through, but rather they are special landscape elements in their own right that contribute a very unique form of aesthetic to any front yard or back yard landscape. They add both decorative appeal and functional living space in otherwise unused areas that are too small to be developed into more large scale elements, but nevertheless are too large to leave fallow without visible diminishment of the landscape.

The most important decision that the landscape designer makes is to choose exactly where to create one or more of these special environments. Any segment of the landscape can be labeled “transitional” from a liberal definition of the term. In this instance, however, transition must be clearly evident as a movement from enclosed, restricted space into a more boundless feeling of sheer open space (or vice versa).