How to Create an Art of Landscape Gardening That Will Please the Eye?

By Satya Narayan Das

Landscape gardening is liked to art as in painting a picture. If you are an artist your art teacher would have probably told you that painting a good picture should have a main point of interest, and that the rest of the points add to the picture to make it more beautiful and interesting. Therefore when landscaping gardening your need to create a picture with a central point and the rest an addition to the main feature.

1. Let's start with the lawn, this can be the central feature of your garden, a good lawn is not overcrowded with fussy bits of bedding and statuary or ornamentation. A lawn is best left as an open space to enhance the beauty of the bedding that surrounds it.

2. One or two additions in a large lawn space can break up a very large area; tasteful bedding at some point in a large lawn can create a point of interest.

3. If the lawn area is quite large you could place a gazebo with some bedding around the gazebo to make it easy to mow the lawn. Any structure directly on a lawn without a break such as flower bed will make mowing a lawn more difficult.

4. Large lawn can also handle a few trees, one or two depending on the size of the lawn, don't put too many trees else they will be in competition with each other for root space and air space, it will also create too much shade and the lawn around lots of trees will not do too well. Lawn requires a certain amount of sunlight and daylight to flourish.

5. Choosing trees for the garden don't place an over large tree that will overpower the garden, choose trees for their interesting features such as interesting foliage, unusual bark patterns, flowering trees, or fruit trees can have interesting features

6. A cluster of interesting shrubs in a flower bed can create extra points of interest to add to a flower bed, group the larger shrubs to the back and add smaller ones to the front; Shrubs also come in a variety of different foliage and colours which can give the painted effect.

7. The broad leaves of the Catalpa with its attractive flowers and seed pods that cling to the tree right into winter will give added interest through most of nature's seasons.

8. The Sugar Maple with its brilliant foliage, the interesting blossoms of a Tulip tree, the bright berries of an Ash, the bark of a White Birch, and the Copper beech leaves are all trees that can give your garden lots of colour and interest.

9. When placing your trees consider how they will look when fully grown. Take their height and spread into consideration when deciding where to place your trees, consider if the trees would look awkward next to each other. A long tall thin tree such as popular would look quite out of place next a Tulip tree for instance.

10. Some trees are evergreens and others shed leaves seasonally, these are factors to take into consideration the placing of the trees, for example placing a cluster of evergreens close to the dwelling will create a gloomy out look in the home. The home will never receive any sunlight. So be ware of placing trees near a house especially near the window areas, houses like gardens require sunlight to give it a feel of warmth and comfort.

Trees and lawn should be carefully chooses and placed to good effect. If you are not sure consult an expert who will help you in your choice.

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