SourceAre you wanting to create better flow and unity in your garden? This is often something that many beginning gardening struggles to achieve. Lack of connection between flowers is normal, and it can usually take a bit of time before a flower is created. Does it need to take years? No, of course not! Maybe just a few months while the plants grow and bloom. In your garden, are you trying to figure out how to best draw attention to specific areas? How about building a connection? Are you wanting to blend multiple textures and colors? Flow and unity have the power to achieve all of this! Here are some of the best ways that you can achieve this seamless look in your garden and with your landscaping abilities.
Add some curves
When you’re wanting to do more in the garden, adding curves is the way to go. Curves are far more natural than the straight line when it comes to nature. Curved lines have the power to create this continuity in your garden. It leads the eye to want to see more sections of your space. Curves can come in so many different forms. This can be step stones, pathways, or even just curving the shape of the flower beds. This is a great way to create unity and to add more depth to the space. This tricks the eye into thinking that there’s so much to see, so even the smallest of gardens can achieve this illusion of a large garden by creating waves and curves. This captures the curiosity and a sense of wonderment from the viewer’s perspective, creating an endless illusion into this green paradise.
Do some repeating
Repetition is your friend when it comes to gardening and landscaping. There’s something so beautiful about repeating the same elements. It takes away potential isolation and adds seamless unity. Repeating elements over and over can help with creating a transition to the next section of the garden as well as rearranged correctly. This is going to help the viewer’s eye when looking around in the garden. Repetition doesn’t have to mean using the same plant over and over, repeating elements can come in multiple forms. You can use plants of the same color scheme, texture, or even species. This is going to add a sense of proximity.
Repetition can even be used with other textures and elements from the garden. If you have wood, stone, or glass elements outside, you can select plants that carry similar features. One example would be stones, pampas grass has similar colors to stone while small succulents have shared similar identical features of stone. This helps with blending. The same principle can be used for wood features as well such as adding more trees or brown flowers and grass into the garden. Combining both hard and soft elements will drastically help in achieving more unity in the garden.
Paths
Having a path is one of the easiest ways to create a sense of flow and help with transitioning to other areas of the garden. Earlier in this article curvature was mentioned as a way to give the illusion that there is far more depth in the garden. Curved pathways have the power to do so. Pathways are absolutely amazing and it helps guide you on where to go in your garden. Paths can come in so many forms such as grass, brick, step stones, wood, or even a stream of water!
This is going to allow more connection to the space as it’s leading you to see other areas of the garden. Paths such as streams of water automatically give the illusion that there is so much more to see, Streams are often met with a large body of water such as a pond, so by having this water feature, it’s already tricking the mind into believing the space is much larger and that there is a union amongst the natural elements of the garden.
Going up
Vertical gardens and hanging pots leave for far more color and depth. Without these, you’d have to rely on large plants such as trees and bushes to create a flow. Having high-up plants brings an interesting element to your garden plus it makes it eye level for the viewer. There are plenty of ways to achieve this such as hanging planters of flowers, vines, trees such as wisteria, or large bush plants like pampas grass. These add much more depth to the garden letting it look far deeper than it is. Just play around with the elements in your garden.
Bring color to the small spots
Even those small naked spots in your garden deserve some attention. This is going to help defeat any potential interruptions that your garden may face. This includes filling in the areas of your pathway, cracks, and all those awkward crevices too. Some ideas for flowers would be
- Marjoram
- Chamomile
- Rockroses
- Sedum
- Ice Plant
- Wool yarrow
- Snow in summer
- Artemisia
- Rock Cress
Whenever you’re looking for these weird crevices and crannies in your garden, be sure to use EcoGear FX to shine some light on where these crevices can be found. Covering these naked spots in your garden is going to help with the flow, but it’s also going to bring so much life to your garden by making it even fuller than it is already.
Create a focal point
When it comes to landscaping, there always needs to be a focal point. This rule applies to interior design, and it applies to the outdoor world as well. Focal points help create more unification in the garden rather than making it stop. Focal points have the power to create an introduction with the flow. This naturally creates this lovely transition where everything ties in together. If you look at garden magazines, books, or even visit a show garden, you’ll pick up on this too.
Many Victorian and English-style gardens will have a focal point such as a centered sculpture, fountain, or a large floral arrangement. The surroundings are usually a repetitive element that helps blend in which allows the focal point to stand out.There are plenty of ways to achieve this transition from the landscaping design into the focal point such as a bold focal point like the example above or even something very subtle. You can go whatever way you like to achieve this look since it’s your garden. You just want the surrounding areas to nicely tie in into the focal point that you create.
