Design Terms + Tips

Memphis Garden Design Terms + Tips

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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

- Allee or Avenue

- Annuals*

B Section

- Backyard Gardens*

- Balance + Mass*

- Balconies*

- Beds + Borders*

- Between or Around Buildings*

- Boxwood

- Borrowed View

- Boundaries*

- Bridges

C Section

- 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

D Section

- Design Tips

- Dirt/Compost/Mulch

- Diagonal Design*

- Dominance: Emphasis*

- Driveways and Garages

- Dry Stream*

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

- Mixed Borders*

- Movement*

- Multi-purpose design*

- Mystery*

N Section

- Native Plants*
  - check out these native plant design interviews with: Chris Cosby, Carol Reese, Mike Larrivee, Kalki Winter, and Suzy Askew

O Section

- Ornaments

P Section

- 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