GARDEN TERMS + DESIGN TIPS
I read garden design books and blogs trying to unravel the mystery of great looking gardens. As a lifelong learner and former teacher, I take extensive notes on whatever I find interesting. In a way, I am creating the garden design textbook I wish I had. I took so many notes, perhaps you will find them useful. Apologies to not remembering all my sources over the years of taking notes……Kim Halyak
- Allee or Avenue
- Annuals*
- Backyard Gardens*
- Balance + Mass*
- Balconies*
- Beds + Borders*
- Between or Around Buildings*
- Boxwood
- Borrowed View
- Boundaries*
- Bridges
- Camera*
- Color*
- Warm Colors vs Cool Colors*
- Color changes with light: seasons*
- Color Echoes
- Red*
- Burgundy
- Pink*
- Orange
- Peach/Coral
- Yellow-Gold*
- Green*
- Blue-Indigo
- Purple-Lavender
- White
- Ivory-Cream
- Silver-Gray
- Brown
- Black
- Combining Plants
- Considerations + Steps in Garden Design*
- Contrast
- Containers
- Design Tips
- Dirt/Compost/Mulch
- Diagonal Design
- Dominance: Emphasis*
- Driveways and Garages
- Dry Stream*
- Edging
- Edibles
- Editing
- Elements of Design
- Elevation Changes
- Enclosure + Sanctuary
- Entry + Exits
- Espalier
- Evergreens + Conifers
- Fences—Walls—Hedges—Boundaries
- Flat spaces
- Flow-composing journeys in landscape
- Focal Point + Lines of Axis
- Foliage
- Formal vs Informal
- Fountains
- Four Season Gardening
- Fragrance
- Framing the View
- Front Yard Gardens
- Function
- Furniture and Fabrics
- Garden Ornamentation
- Garden Styles + Themes*
- Green Roofs
- Grid Design Garden
- Ground levels (foreground, mid-ground, far ground
- Groundcovers
- Hardscaping vs Softscaping
- Hot tubs, spas, outdoor showers
- House
- House Color Planting schemes
- How Many plants do I need?
- Hydrangeas
- Illusions
- Interconnection
- Inside house views
- Irrigation Systems
- Knuckles in Landscape
- Lawns
- Light and Shadows
- Lighting
- Lines + Direction
- Maintainability
- Mass, void, space
- Mass Plantings
- Mirrors
- Mixed Borders*
- Movement*
- Multi-purpose design*
- Mystery*
- Native Plants*
- Ornaments
- Paths—walkways—paving
- Pattern
- Permaculture Principles
- Pets
- Planes-atmospheric, linear, spatial*
- Plant Collectors
- Plant for Privacy
- Plant Selection Steps*
- Plant Spacing Measurements*
- Pleaching
- Pleasing Plant Combinations
- Pools
- Porches + Sitting Areas
- Power Spots*
- Pricing Guidelines (est)
- Proportion*
- Problems solved with design
- Pruning Tips
- Rain Barrels*
- Raised Beds*
- Repetition
- Rhythm
- Rule of Thirds*
- Scale*
- Sequence*
- Shadows*
- Shape + Form*
- Shady Spots
- Shade Structures
- Sheds + Outbuildings
- Shrubs
- Side Yards
- Simplicity*
- Size
- Slopes
- Soil*
- Small Garden Design*
- Space
- Steps
- Structures, walls, screens
- Structure
- Sun: Shade Orientation*
- Sustainability
- Texture*
- Time
- Transition
- Trees
- Unity of Three
- Urban + Town Gardens
- Variety
- Variegation*
- Vertical Elements
- Vines
- Water Plants
- Water Features*
- Whimsy-Delight*
- Wind
- Windows*
- Window Boxes*
- Xeriscape*