Green Garden Design Is Ecologically Helpful & Prudent
“Green” is an interesting word these days. It, of course, still means the primary color green. However, recently it has taken on the new meaning of being ecologically helpful, prudent and sustainable. Within the context of a home landscape, it means talking about a “green” green garden.
“With a design for a green garden, the goals are basically the same as for any other landscape project, except we focus on using materials, plant and non-plant, that reduce the Big Four of ongoing maintenance: watering, trimming, weeding and mulching,” says Jeff Halper, “green” expert with Exterior Worlds.
Following are some ideas for your home landscape design that use less energy and money—to help you get a green garden and still get to keep some green in your pocketbook:
Material Handling Equipment Makes Moving Materials Safer
In this section of our website, you will find material handling equipment designed to make the moving of materials easier, safer, and faster. These devices are simple in design. The majority of them take the form of transports that roll on casters over warehouse floors and/or outdoor equipment yards. Some are designed to handle very small items such as tools and basic supplies. Others are designed to haul very heavy pieces of equipment, palletized products, and oddly shaped items to work areas, storage racks, and shipping docks.
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Garden design ideas can be based on a number of things. One of these is geometry. Geometry is important to the establishment of relationships between architecture and landscape elements. Since architecture is by nature inorganic, the best way to link its form to the living forms of Nature is to find repeating shapes that occur in both and magnify these forms in the shape of a garden.
Another basis for garden design ideas is the type, or style, of the garden itself. This refers primarily to two things. The first of these is garden contents. Different types of gardens have different types of greenery and flowering plants within them. Some are more appropriate to their respective surroundings than others. Types of gardens are sometimes named after adjacent manmade structures, such as courtyard gardens or patio gardens. In other cases they may be named after something they do, like morning gardens that you literally sit beside in the morning while you read your paper and enjoy your coffee.
French Garden Design Viewed From A Balcony Is Breathtaking --
French garden gardens use the same of geometry and symmetry that André Le Nôtre established in the 17th Century. The Lodge at Versailles had originally been a quite retreat used for royal hunts, but Le Nôtre turned it into a palace that became the envy of the European Elite. Based on a pattern of parterres gardens divided by radiating walkways, reflecting pools, and ornate stone coping, the Versailles Gardens reflected an awareness of order and system that brought intricately sculpted individual elements into a complex, interconnected unity visible only from a balcony or palace room. This style was rapidly adopted as the standard landscaping design of all the French aristocracy.
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).
English garden design and Residential landscape designers --
You know one when you see it. The English garden design is all about curved beds, winding paths, riotous color. The gardener’s hand is light. There—but just barely. It lets nature do its own thing. You might even say that the English garden design is controlled chaos.
The history of English garden design began with the revolt against the constraints of formal landscape design and classic landscape design. These two forms, with their appreciation of balance, symmetry and geometry, sit on the opposing end of the spectrum from English garden design. Where formal gardens find beauty in linearity, English gardens use undulating lines. Where formal gardens seek right angles, English gardens use few, if any, angles. The words of the English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744)—the “amiable simplicity of unadorned nature”—describe this style.
Impressionist painters were key influencers in the continuing development of the English garden design. Claude Monet (1840-1926) claimed that painting and gardening were his only two interests in life. When he first moved to Giverny, where he would build his famous water gardens, his first concern was to arrange the garden in a rampant, naturalistic explosion of color.
Designer Garden Beauty Ingages The Senses --
The first thing to acknowledge about designer gardens is that “garden” is a noun and a verb. It seems that double usage was intentional since a garden is a place of action. Life happens here and humans, since time immemorial, have appreciated this intertwined idea, the ideal of it. A garden is life in motion, a process, a becoming.
With its beauty, a designer garden engages the senses. These gardens call forth both emotional and aesthetic responses. The mystery of fragrance from a blooming sage bush. The slant light from the setting sun as it falls on a willow tree. The joyous noise of songbirds. The will to live as seen in an emerging amaryllis bulb.
