Design Terms + Tips

    Memphis Garden Design Terms + Tips

    by Kim Halyak

    Japanese Bridge

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_miley/4458630817

    As a lifelong learner and former teacher, I take extensive notes on whatever I find interesting. This includes garden design books and blogs.

    By creating these Memphis garden design terms and tips, I am not only creating the garden design textbook I wish I had, but I’m also unraveling the mystery of great looking gardens. 

    So go ahead, check them out! 

    Perhaps you will find them useful. :). And definitely check out these design tips from garden designers and experts

    Writer’s Update: Apologies for not remembering all my sources over the years of taking notes……I took so many notes….I should take better care citing my sources beforehand, LOL!

     A Section

     

    B Section

      • Boxwood
      • Bridges

     

    C Section

      • Contrast
      • Containers

     

    D Section

      • Design Tips
      • Dirt/Compost/Mulch
      • Driveways and Garages

     

    E Section

      • Edging
      • Edibles
      • Editing
      • Elements of Design
      • Elevation Changes
      • Enclosure + Sanctuary
      • Entry + Exits
      • Espalier
      • Evergreens + Conifers

     

    F Section

      • 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

     

    G Section

      • Green Roofs
      • Grid Design Garden
      • Ground levels (foreground, mid-ground, far ground
      • Groundcovers

     

    H Section

      • Hardscaping vs Softscaping
      • Hot tubs, spas, outdoor showers
      • House
      • House Color Planting schemes
      • How Many plants do I need?
      • Hydrangeas

     

    I Section

      • Illusions
      • Interconnection
      • Inside house views
      • Irrigation Systems

     

    K Section

      • Knuckles in Landscape

     

    L Section

      • Lawns
      • Light and Shadows
      • Lighting
      • Lines + Direction

     

    M Section

      • Maintainability
      • Mass, void, space
      • Mass Plantings
      • Mirrors

     

    N Section

     

    O Section

      • Ornaments

     

    P Section

      • Paths—walkways—paving
      • Pattern
      • Permaculture Principles
      • Pets
      • Plant Collectors
      • Pleaching
      • Pleasing Plant Combinations
      • Pools
      • Porches + Sitting Areas
      • Power Spots*
      • Pricing Guidelines (est)
      • Proportion*
      • Problems solved with design
      • Pruning Tips
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    R Section

      • Repetition
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    S Section

      • Shady Spots
      • Shade Structures
      • Sheds + Outbuildings
      • Shrubs
      • Side Yards
      • Size
      • Slopes
      • Space
      • Steps
      • Structures, walls, screens
      • Structure
      • Sustainability

     

    T Section

      • Time
      • Transition
      • Trees

     

    U Section

      • Unity of Three
      • Urban + Town Gardens

     

    V Section

      • Variety
      • Vertical Elements
      • Vines

     

    W Section

      • Water Plants
      • Wind

     

    X Section

     

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