The holidays are over. Guests have gone home. Family is back to work and school. It’s 12 degrees outside. Now is not the time most people consider their landscapes. But avid gardeners are searching seed catalogues and dreaming of that first nice day in spring when their gardens can be tilled. And then, as it hap...... (more...)
Formal landscape design invokes order and balance. Think of the gardens of Monticello, the landscaping of Versailles, and, closer to home, the gardens of Bayou Bend, which is part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The hand of the gardener is clearly in evidence in formal landscape designs as the pathways an...... (more...)
You know one when you see it. The English garden design is all about curved beds, winding paths, riotous color. The gardener's hand is light. There-but just barely. It lets nature do its own thing. You might even say that the English garden design is controlled chaos.
The history of English garden design began...... (more...)
Every garden has a bit of fantasy in it and, for Houstonians longing for the look and feel of, say, Tuscany or the Italian Renaissance period, no garden fills that desire like a Mediterranean landscape design.
Combining elegant elements of nature with the relaxed Mediterranean culture, the Mediterranean landsc...... (more...)
A garden is usually the aim of a landscape architect for the homeowner. Most owners also like to have a beautifully landscaped garden which was created by a landscape architect. Most cases of a garden landscape design consist of plants unless it is a rock garden which may have little or no plants at all.
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