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focal points, scale, elevations are just some tricks and tips for garden design
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35 Comments
I just found your channel. I'm building my house next January, well starting to. I was thinking of planting some trees and shrubs as soon as I get the layout of the house .but now I'm gonna wait till its built.
Like you said I should look out the window of the kitchen, living room and library and plan the garden accordingly.
No point in having a nice tree if you don't get to see it.
Thank you
The focal point idea is just brilliant.
I also have a ton of photos like you said, and I'm gonna steal some cool ideas from them
Thanks for sharing ☝💤atsuuup 👍
Not cool to take pics of people's yards and then publish them for all the world to see without their permission. But I get it
thanks a lot for all the great ideas!!
I’m enjoying your approach to design and how to start! Thank you !
Time stamp 8;23 about…. your bench on the hill. I believe the bench communicates it’s ok to walk into the flower bed, almost like giving permission, to clarify to the bystander you are meant to enter this planted space. I myself am Very visual and I didn’t feel invited to venture onto the path. Path looks a bit like a maintenance path.
great explanation to focal points, to draw the eye AND. Focal points can invite, entice you to physically go in, be part of the garden. Such as the red bench.
I like brown chairs. The purple chairs look tacky.
Well done. Good video & good simple ideas with a clear & practical perspective on what works & what doesn’t. By the way that tall grass doesn’t work at all, however if it was a multi stem small tree that you could see through or something like a feathery fennel, also that you could see through, then the scale wouldn’t be a problem.
It’s nice walking quietly through my Santa Monica neighborhood taking photos of trees and flowers. I love trees and I have gotten many ideas for my own yard to combine colors better. There is so much beautiful around us to appreciate, right.
Pink flamingos aren't special.
Clem – ay – tis
Excellent video, you gave me something to think about.
They "saw" the bench.
Hello. Just found your channel and enjoying your videos. I do want to warn folks about using mirrors and bird fatalities. The birds think the mirror is a continuation of the landscape and will fly into them. They may die on the spot or fly away and die later from the head trauma.
Some very pretty gardens. But I wouldn´t want the general public, people I don´t know, the hoy polloy in my garden
I will definitely borrow that idea with a bench as a focal point. This video was such a good guidance for me. Thank you so much for sharing!
EXCELLENT VIDEO!!
You give out so much free content that I love. Thank you!
Amazing lessons and tips. Hilarious too. Thank you 🙏🏾
Lol, I love to look at someone else's garden too and am sometimes scared to look too deep because of that same reason as well. Too funny.
Thank you for sharing what you know, you are appreciated, great video, I learned so much and was inspired!
Beautiful, and thank you for educating us concerning facts about gardening. Love your garden.
Thank you for the video
This just popped up on my YouTube app. Great content. Thank you, really enjoyed it.
Check out Schnormeier Gardens in Gambier, Ohio — it is a gorgeous oriental garden that is accessible only a few tours a year. Incredible beauty.
Một nụ cười có thể thay đổi một ngày một cái ôm có thể thay đổi một tuần một lời nói có thể thay đổi một cuộc sống.
I love the surprise flamingos!
You could take a number of these photos and create a music video entitled "Secret Garden".
Thank you
I enjoyed this video! You showed a wonderful tropical side yard, with tall slender palms. I am definitely taking this idea for my own relatively bare side yard, using native plants. My back yard already needs very little maintenance, and I am now involved in trading many of the exotics for native plants. The few I have already planted, make berries for the birds, flowering for the pollinators, and already I have more visitors! Thanks to your video, I am encouraged to add a focal point including a bench to make it interesting for humans, too!. Thank you for sharing this wealth of information. Mmmm…I wonder if I could put in a small pond in a shady corner? Wouldn't that be something?!
Hello from Stratford Ontario. I was on your Facebook group but I haven’t see you.
Again! You’ve gave me more things to improve in my garden😂😅😅😅😅Thanks????
Love all these ideas and love that you have examples!✨🌿✨
I have learned so much from this video and I even have some big ideas of what I’m going to do in my garden.
Hi Robert,
This is a very helpful video. I like it very much!
In the chapter about scale you mention the Miscanthus being too high for this place. I think it is too high for this exact spot between the two pathways running up and down this sector of the garden. From the single image it is impossible to know what is to the right of this perspective and what is there looking back. But the trees in the back give the impression of a sheltered garden niche. The tall Miscanthus hampers the feel of standing in the sheltered garden niche. And that does not just come from the height of the grass, but from being tall and being in the center. You love Japanese style gardens. In Japanese gardens no things are placed in the center, there is never any symmetry. Yes, they place focal points in sections of the garden and these do dominate that section, but they are always balanced with other things in other parts of the garden. The Miscanthus sits in the center of that section of the garden and emphasizes the symmetry between to the two paths to the right and the left of the dry creek bed. Placed a little bit out of center, a little closer to the trees I believe it would work well.
I actually believe that the concept of the garden as a shelter or niche is also an important design principle. It creates intimacy, a feel of being safe and calm. When you are the there, you are not on a field, on a loan or meadow, you are IN the garden. This is often very obvious with tiny gardens. But also large gardens implement that concept, for instance by surrounding with large evergreens and trees. Large gardens sometimes create very narrow, sheltered spaces which contrast with the larger spaces in the garden.
-Peter