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Designer Landscape Styles
Your first concern when starting a new
landscaping project is the style. The style of your landscape
should match the style of your house, but it's also an indication
of your personality and style. Before selecting a landscape
style, there are several factors that should be considered.
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What level of maintenance accommodates
to your everyday life?
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Do you enjoying spending time
in your garden or are you looking for the appeal without
the heavy keep up?
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What shapes and sizes will match your
architecture best?
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What kind of light does your yard receive?
What type of weather does it receive?
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What do you plan to use your yard for?
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How much traffic will it be getting?
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Which style best suits your personal
taste and creates the curb appeal most desired?
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What features of your yard are you
planning on keeping and what features will you sacrifice?
There are several distinct landscape styles
to choose from. Each of these styles expresses a single
character and unique style. Often a homeowner will integrate
aspects of many different landscape styles and create a
unique design suited to their needs.
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Formal Landscape -
This style using straight lines and geometrical shapes
to create an orderly, closely managed garden effect.
Much maintenance is required for the formal appeal.
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Informal Landscape
- This style uses curved beds creating a very random
appearance. Those with family's consisting of young
children prefer the informal design.
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English Garden Style
- This style can be varied; including both formal and
informal layout. The lawn, surrounded by perennial borders,
hedges and gates, and benches are some of the key aspects
of the style.
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Oriental Landscape
- This style incorporates rocks, evergreens and water.
It includes a variety of striking plants, stones, and
water structures.
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Woodland Landscape
- This style requires the least amount of maintenance
because it is created by letting the wild life grow
in its own unique way. It blends in with the woodwork
and sloping ground.
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Organic Gardens -
Organic gardens avoid the use of chemical treatment
on plants, and instead used natural fertilization and
pest control.
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Xeriscape Gardens
- This style utilizes the amount of water used for your
garden by integrating low water plants and flowers.
The design is created to reduce water evaporation.
As a homeowner, look at where you spend
most of your time and really focus on ways of enhancing
that area and the view from those places. Once you have
seriously reviewed what you have to work with and what appeal
you are keen to, you should know what style your landscape
will be and what function it will perform for you. As always,
a professional landscape designer can help you with these
decisions.
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