Triangulation Garden Design
There is one more measurement that is useful for the garden designer and that is called offsets.
Triangulation garden design. Department of agriculture. Garden design tips 3 triangulation before you can start designing a garden you ll need to know its exact size and shape. How to measure a garden.
The easiest way to take measurements from a plot like this is to triangulate. Using triangulation to locate a point as figure 2 4 shows triangulation is simple and accurate. Triangulation can also be used to plot the corners of other outbuildings garages and even the centre of drain covers so it s probably the measurement you use most when surveying a garden.
You cannot create a plan of the new garden until you have an accurate plan of the existing garden. Measuring a garden module 2 page 7 house figure 2 4. Suppose the example on the earlier page had a plot that wasn t square.
On your plan you can place the client s tree exactly where it should be. Another corner could feature a spiraling herb garden so you always have fresh ingredients for cooking. Exercise 2 3 as we are about to see triangulation is not the only method of accurate measuring.