Landscape Design

Garden water fountains. You’ve weeded the flower beds, planted the vegetable garden and dusted off your patio furniture. Now comes the fun part: adding some decorative elements to your garden. And what better way to pull your design together than with an elegant fountain.

Fountains not only add a beautiful visual accent to an outdoor space, they also create a soothing sound that blocks out noise from the street or the neighbors. With a fountain as its centerpiece, your garden will become a wonderful secluded retreat from the hectic outside world.
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What is potager garden, Potager gardens combine the utilitarian nature of the English kitchen garden with the style and grace of French fashion. It is basically an ornamental vegetable garden. Plants are chosen for both their edible and ornamental natures and are put together in such a way that it looks pretty while still providing food for the household.

There is no one potager design. There are many different potager designs Some favor the style of knot gardens or designs that repeat a certain pattern or a symmetrical shape. While these designs are typically true of potager garden designs, this is not the only way to design potager gardens. A traditional cottage garden design, which tends to be a little less formal, can also make a nice potager garden.
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Combining shades and tones of the same color or limiting yourself to using a related group of colors is a fun way to create an exciting yet harmonious garden design. A predetermined palette can also make choosing plants easier.

Below step you could used on how to do it:
• Create a blazing-hot garden by bringing together fiery reds, blinding yellows, and tropical oranges. To keep this hot theme under control, look for red-flowered cultivars of annuals and perennials that have a hint of yellow or orange in them.
• In a hot-themed design, don’t limit yourself to vividly colored flowers; also look for plants with flashy leaves and seedpods like coleus and chiles (Capsicum). Read more…

When we think of garden design, garden edging is often overlooked and yet done properly can make a huge aesthetic and functional difference. To enable this, the edging must be shaped to complement the architecture of the surrounding area(s) and yet strong and durable enough to stand the test of traffic and time.

This is why in the past metal bars are often the preferred edging material. The reason is not just that metal edging is durable but metal can be bent (albeit with a fair amount of force) and will hold a memory of the shape you bend it to. However, metal plate is expensive and hard to work with unless you are an engineer or boiler maker.
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