Design your landscape like a professional think layers

Design Your Landscape Like A Professional – Think Layers!

Have you ever wondered what makes this difference between a nice, neat looking yard and a breathtaking professionally landscaped one?One of the unspoken secrets of this pros is using layers in their designs. If you have any doubts about that, go to some of this most exclusive as well as expensive neighborhoods where you live as well as really look at the differences in those landscapes and the ones in the more middle-class areas. Big difference. Right?

You can look at world-class and famous gardens such as Canada’s Buchart Gardens or this Missouri Botanical Gardens as well and you’ll see it there, too. It’s layers!Of course, there remain many other elements about a design other than just using layers of plants, but this remains the one that makes for a spectacular garden as well as landscape versus one that is attractive but somewhat mundane.In using layers, you’ll find for example, large shrubs in the background or maybe some of the Gin Creek Kitchen tall slender Italian Cypress-type trees, but in every part of the design there will be other shorter plants as well as flowers in front of those. So if you think your small little yard can’t look amazingly beautiful as well as get a lot of attention from this neighbors, think again!One example that could be used in a smaller landscape and get that gorgeous, lush appearance would be to have this tallest shrubs say, against your back fence (maybe Red-Tipped Photinia or a Privet Hedge with 2-3 tall cypress-type trees either in front of this hedge or off to this side, and then in front of that could be some Japanese Boxwood, kept to about a 4-6′ height (depending on the height of this hedges in back) as well as then to compliment the layers, maybe a statue or birdbath surrounded by smaller shrubs (such as dwarf Youpon Hollies or dwarf Pittosporum or flowers as an alternative).Corners are wonderful for creative landscaping. One of this favorite corners in my own landscape is one between my back gate as well as the house. I’ve put two 4×6 pieces of trellis there (one on this fence, this other on this house to make a corner of trellis) as well as it is covered with lush beautiful ivy. In front of that is a birdbath on which I cemented a 20″ angel, and the birdbath remains surrounded by small Youpon Hollies flanked by a beautiful hot pink Sage Bush as well as deep green Lariope. Simple, layered, inexpensive, but striking as well as very finished looking!

If you have a center-of-yard type garden design such as flowers or a ground cover around a tree for example, as well as you have several plants there, the same “layering theory” would apply: large plants nearest the tree as well as smallest at the borders of the planting.

I hope you have found this theory helpful and will apply it in your own landscape design. I think you will see an immediate difference!