Teach Yourself Garden Design
It s the trickiest principle in landscape design for beginners but scale and pacing give your yard a pulled together look.
Teach yourself garden design. Proportion is the sense that the size of the individual components the landscape plants or groups of components in a landscape is consistent with the landscape as a whole. I ll show you how to create a final landscape design. We ll also teach you how to shop for plants and read nursery tags like a pro.
There will be variations in size shape and color with tall plants against a building or in the back of a flowerbed and paths that lead people through the space. The landscape design workbook will help you develop the all important wants and needs list. She has also taught many landscape professionals how to improve their existing design skills.
In this section we ll teach you some basic design concepts and the basics of plants and planting. You will learn how to use the internet to get great design ideas. Her mission is to demystify landscape design so that people can easily create a stunning garden without needing to hire a designer.
How to use shapes to create innovative designs. Rachel teaches a simple fast track design formula that has enabled thousands of people to successfully design their garden. Focus on scale and pacing.
Landscape plants should be arranged so as to conform to these principles. At the end of the course you will have a garden design that is ready to implement.