Memphis Garden Design Terms + Tips
by Kim Halyak
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
- 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
- Color*
- Combining Plants
- Considerations + Steps in Garden Design*
- 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
- Garden Ornamentation
- Garden Styles + Themes*
- 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
- Native Plants*
- check out these native plant design interviews with: Chris Cosby, Carol Reese, Mike Larrivee, Kalki Winter, and Suzy Askew
- Native Plants*
O Section
- Ornaments
P Section
- Paths—walkways—paving
- Pattern
- Permaculture Principles
- Pets
- Plant Collectors
- Plant for Privacy
- Plant Selection Steps*
- Pleaching
- Pleasing Plant Combinations
- Pools
- Porches + Sitting Areas
- Power Spots*
- Pricing Guidelines (est)
- Proportion*
- Problems solved with design
- Pruning Tips
R Section
- Repetition
- Rhythm
- Rule of Thirds*
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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