Psychology Of Garden Design

That the garden for all its naturalness or wildness is founded on strong principles what s sometimes known in garden circles as good bones second that regulating lines at least as i employ them are subjective.

Psychology of garden design. How everyday spaces structure our lives behaviour and well being. The psychology of design. I ve thought at times that perhaps we as humans feel a sort of guilt driving us to restore nature and care for it.

This course concentrates on the detail of creating individual components in a landscape that are the difference between a good and a great garden. I choose the colors in my garden carefully. Big tall plants have more influence over the spatial feel of a garden so trees are clearly more useful in this role than diminutive alpines.

And you develop skills to create specific effects in a garden. The primary psychology of landscape design principle in the design of an outdoor living patio in called defensible space in the western psychology paradigm. First is the idea of underlying order.

Pops of red fuschia yellow and purple against various shades of green. And sometimes enjoying spaces they had written off as not worth bothering with. The pitched roof symbolises shelter and enclosure which we need to make ourselves feel secure.

Deciding to garden is to choose respite from our ever more transactional practical priorities. How wonderful that. Early in human evolution survival required us to inhabit spaces that could be defended.

But whose plants and garden design you can. For me one of the joys of designing and then constructing gardens for people is witnessing the pleasure that clients feel as they use their new gardens perhaps experiencing the garden in ways they had never even considered before. Light greens dark greens even variegated greens.