Friday, March 25, 2011
Any Ideas??
Ok, I've got a few off the charts, super cool, posts spinning around in my head. I just wanted to see if there is something specifically that any followers might want some insight on. It really can be just about anything from, design, plant selection, specific plant culture, recommendations, lighting, sky is the limit. I'll also be running some type of free give away in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for that. Which, in my best Colonel Sanders voice, "Guarantee" it will be some totally legit swag, causing you to go into depression over not participating. How is Colonel pronounced Kernal anyways??? Happy Landscaping/Gardening!
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what's the right way to prune roses?
ReplyDeleteAre there certain rules that you follow for pruning japanese maples, or guidelines?
For design and layout of a landscape, what is your goal for someone that is walking up to a house to notice the most? What do you have their eyes drawn to? Cause see in the video game world and what we are basically taught at work, is that we can have amazingly beautiful, scary, ominous or whatever kind of view... but there has to be a player path for one to follow. So we normally use foliage, lighting and shadows to frame that player path for ones eye to be drawn to where they must go next. So my question would be, is this something of similar technique that you follow? When you design a landscape for ones front yard, do you draw their eyes to the front door with how you layout your design? does this design help frame the house as the main piece? Or is this video game talk of how we do things not work in the real world of landscaping? But I'm sure you don't want to give away all your secrets. :)
ReplyDeleteJonathan, Correct you are, my young gaming master. Your lesson, complete it is. Good landscape design should always lead you somewhere, or have a goal in mind. Depending upon the design, this can be done very obviously i.e. door painted red with attention grabbing plants flanking both sides, or done in an almost subconsciously manner. This can be done in many different ways, by repeating a planting pattern, Layering of plants, hardscape (walls, arbors, trellis, walkways, stone paths, etc.) Landscape lighting positioning at night is also very effective. I will elaborate more on this in future posts.
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