7 things to consider when choosing a new garden design

As a novice to landscape design, you might be overwhelmed by all the choices. The same principles that guide room setup inside should guide your designs outside too! Here are seven tips for designing a beautiful outdoor space with limited time and budget:

1) Determine your requirements for a wonderful garden

When it comes to thinking about what a person wants and needs from their landscaper, the first step is making a list of both. Do you need space for your children? How much do you want your family to be able to relax together on the patio or deck? Spend some time sketching rough drafts of where things would go in order create ideas that are more concrete than just vague thoughts.

2) Negative space is your secret weapon

One of the most important things to keep in mind when designing your outdoor space is how the sun and wind will impact it. You might want a patio on one side, but that would mean more afternoon heat – not just during summertime, either! And if you don’t solve this problem with some well thought-out solutions then everyone’s chillin’ out by the braai won’t be so relaxing because they’ll have to contend with pesky winds too or heat too.

3) Put your favorite book down and enjoy your landscape

When you’re ready to make decisions about your yard, take the time and live with it for a while. It’s too easy at first glance to come up with conclusions that can lead to long term problems in design. In our own backyard we’ve discovered certain areas where there are perfect places just waiting for an inviting bench or swing – but I wouldn’t have thought of them on my initial tour when we bought the house!

4) Start small with your landscape ideas

Home and garden TV shows try to make it seem like they are able to create a complete outdoor renovation in just a few days, but that is not possible. Creating an aesthetically pleasing landscape takes time because there are many steps involved such as slowly developing your plan or planting flowers. You should start small with things you enjoy doing for one hour when you have the opportunity so you can see how everything develops more than filling up space right away which people will forget about over time.

5) Find a focal point in your garden

Your garden should have a focal point or series of points. This can be an incredible sculpture, beautiful flowers and shrubs; it could also be trees with gorgeous leaves, like weeping willows that sway in the breeze. All these things are designed to draw your eye throughout the space as you explore what’s on offer for you there!

6) Focus on scale and pacing with your landscape ideas

Designing and landscaping is not easy. But, scale and pacing can give your yard the look of being pulled together with varied size shapes and colors in contrast to tall plants against buildings or at the back of flower beds. You’ll want to repeat some elements so that there’s cohesion but you also don’t want monotony because an occasional element will stand out more than others by contrasting them such as adding one plant different from all other ones prevalent throughout the space.

7) You need to be open to change with any new landscaping idea

Patience is the key to landscape design. If all of that bare space is too much to look at, and kids and dogs are tracking in mud, rely on temporary solutions—annuals, fast-growing ground covers or mulch — to cover an area while you’re figuring out what should be there. Large landscaping features like trees can be hard to move; annuals can easily be taken out if they don’t work for your garden – but small perennials or shrubs might need some more time before their true beauty shines through.

Patience plays a big role when it comes down designing landscapes! Patiences needs patience during this process since large landscaping details may take longer than anticipated so we recommend using less permanent plants.

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