Garden Design Plans

Garden design plans are best developed with the help of a professional landscaping contractor with formal training in botany and landscape architecture. Gardens are key components to any yard and contribute much more than color and greenery to the aesthetic of your home and your landscape. When designed in accordance with a master landscaping plan that reflects the entirety of your living experience, gardens accomplish a number of things for your property that add vitality and dimension to your outdoor living experience.

One of the many ways we help our clients is to develop garden design plans that directly reflect the architecture of the home. Our experience has taught us that this is often a much neglected ingredient of garden design. When people view your property, they view it as an entirety. They notice the home first because it is the largest and tallest structure on the lot. Whatever unique structural features characterize its architecture set a pattern that the mind expects to see continue as they eye travels down the slope of the roof into the surrounding greenery. A garden design planned around the same basic geometric patterns and linear movement of the house itself brings an immediate sense of harmony and connotes a unity of Nature and structure that makes for superior landscaping design.

Garden design also adds a sense of life and growth throughout the property—even making inorganic structures appear more “alive” in certain respects. Outdoor areas have to be set aside for specific purposes, and outdoor structures such as swimming pools, play areas, sports courts, outdoor kitchens, and patio seating areas have to be constructed by experienced specialists. Many of these structures are extremely complex and lack any semblance of an organic sensibility. This is where a professionally developed garden design can play a determining role in establishing the aesthetic of your property. Adding a sense of vibrancy, color, and life around exterior architecture and outdoor décor will go a long ways toward making your entire property appear to have a life of its own.