How to create a beautiful garden design
Garden design is crucial to create a manageable but visually high-impact beautiful garden. Autumn and winter are the perfect time to plan your garden ahead of next spring, so now is the ideal time to get inspired, research and plan the best garden design to suit your lifestyle.
Keeping an outdoor space in a picture-perfect condition requires year-round hard work, especially if you have mixed use areas, but by designing your garden with intention, you’ll have more time to relax in it rather than being a slave to its maintenance.
Having provided customers with garden edging products NZ wide for over 20 years, we enjoy seeing our metal landscape edging used in transformational garden designs. Whether your outdoor space needs a pick-me-up, or you are planning a complete garden design overhaul, here are our top observations of beautiful garden designs.
Proportion
This is perhaps the most important aspect of garden design. Design a garden in proportion to the property. Too often large properties have borders and planting that, in comparison to the house, look rather awkward – too small with too few plants. If you have the space, be generous with both borders and planting.
The relationship between the property and the proportions of the borders and features is key. Think of the garden and house holistically, rather than as an accessory or separate entity, use your design to connect them.
Balance
The most beautiful gardens combine lines, symmetry, and shapes to match the style of the surroundings, but also have a visual balance between the layout of softscape and hardscape elements.
What are hardscape elements?
Hardscape elements of garden design include paths, garden bed edging, walls, water features, decking and sitting areas.
What are softscape elements?
Softscape involves the plants; not just the colours but their horticultural needs, how they change over the seasons, their lifespan, size, speed of growth and the all-important seasonal appearances.
Landscape edging is an element of garden design that marries hardscape and softscape elements, an easy garden fix to make any space orderly. Giving clarity to distinct zones of a garden while renovating rough edges of paths and borders, garden edging creates an easy to maintain, functional and attractive feature – a beautiful garden doesn’t have to be a labour of love.
Complement your surroundings
The internet is awash with images of beautiful gardens. Travel and other people’s gardens are always inspiring; however, what works in a Balinese courtyard may not translate quite so well to a south facing Christchurch NZ garden. Try not to let your imagination run wild and design a garden to complement and celebrate the characteristics and growing conditions available to you.
Whether your tastes are more traditional, or you prefer a contemporary garden design, your garden is a private idyll. To learn more about how metal landscape garden edging is used in beautiful garden designs, contact the team today, or call 021 925 389 for a free no-obligation chat.
