![]() And it feels hopeless.īut if you take another look at the pictures and your results, the problem is often blatantly obvious. After looking at magazines for inspiration, your own creations seemed far away from what you were trying to build. The most common frustration among garden makers is a disconnect between the vision and the reality. Easy Quantity Matters – Your garden probably doesn’t have enough plants If you are in doubt about the proportion and the scale of your design, check if they are close to the Golden Ratio. The longer part, divided by the smaller part, is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part: It’s a special number found by dividing a line into two parts. Have you ever heard about the Golden Ratio? How come? Use the Golden Ratio in your landscape design Once you learn how to put things in the right correlation, it becomes more and more natural. Getting the right proportions is not a superpower it’s more a matter of practice. It’s like wearing a bespoke suit: it fits perfectly. If the proportions are well conceived, walking through a room, sitting on a chair, or chilling in a garden is comfortable and harmonious. In a well-proportioned composition, all the parts have the right dimension and scale compared to the others. If they are not correct, whatever you design will look unbalanced, unfinished, and uncomfortable. Proportion and scale are the most important aspects of design. Listening to other peoples’ impressions helps us to understand if the message we are sending out there is heard loud and clear. Often, we fall in love with our own ideas, and we lose objectivity. Once you define your mood, discuss it with somebody you trust.(also, you can access my free garden style guides here – each one gives you the defining elements of the style) Increase your knowledge: the more you know, the less likely you will be to pick up the wrong references.If someone as talented as James Basson, who has many years of experience, can make this mistake, the solution to this problem is not easy. Now we have to solve the problem of choosing the right references so that our garden doesn’t look wrong. This is what you might see:Īn informal atmosphere? Masses of plants? Uneven and limited hard surfaces? If you google ‘country garden’ and then click on ‘Images’. Let’s say, for example, that you want to design a country garden. The best way to figure out these qualities is to examine pictures that show that mood and figure out what they have in common. We just have to find the 2 or 3 things that express clearly what we are talking about ( the 20%) like the bob haircut, the sunglasses, and the necklaces in the Anna Wintour example. The Pareto Principle, also called the 80/20 rule, says that 20% of the input creates 80% of the result. What are the main garden design ideas for the project? How many do we need? Apply the Pareto principle to your backyard garden design ideas To create a mood, we have to find the main features that define it. How to avoid our garden reminding anyone of a pet cemetery? So, we have a few things to solve: How to create a mood and choose the garden elements to express it? Stone blocks emerging from a scruffy lawn are defining elements for what a pet cemetery looks like in most anybody’s imagination. It was quite controversial: some liked it, and some didn’t.įor me, it was terrible to read the Facebook comments – somebody called it a ‘pet cemetery’…Īnd the truth is, it does look like a pet cemetery. This garden, designed by James Basson, won the Gold Medal and Best Show Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. James Basson is a landscape designer who specializes in imagining nice garden design ideas that create a sense of place. ![]() ![]() I’m amazed how often gardens look confused, or worse – completely different from what they meant. What ‘language’ are you speaking, and what mood are you evoking? A glimpse should immediately tell the world what it is about. What characteristics will you use to define your garden style? The point? It’s possible to describe a mood ( or a person, a look, a style) with only a few defining characteristics. I’m sure that you only need to look at that bob haircut, the sunglasses, and those chunky necklaces to recognize Anna Wintour. Vietnamese is the wonderful combination of star anise, ginger, cinnamon, and lime that make a delicious pho. ‘Italian’ conjures the scent of basil and pasta al pomodoro or a crunchy pizza from a wood-fired oven. How amazing it is that just one word has the power to create a whole world of flavors and atmospheres. Sometimes it’s ‘Italian!’ ( groundbreaking, I know…), sometimes ‘Vietnamese’…and so on. When I want to go out for dinner with my partner, we ask each other: ‘What do you feel like?’ Set The Mood – Garden Design Ideas Grow from a Garden Style ![]()
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