This video looks in depth atfinding ideasandinspirationfor your own garden design.
It's broken down into three sections:
- Garden Styles
- Activities & Features
- Resources
It's a simple process to get the ball rolling and help you determine
what you want to do or seein your backyard garden.It also explores what materials or garden design style you want to pair with your house.
There are two main resource options available to you when looking for ideas:
- Imagery: Videos or Photos
- Reality: The physical world around you
Images
You rely onImagerytoget ideas from places you can't
physically
go.
Imagery is best found online:
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Design blogs
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specialty sites
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social media like Pinterest or Facebook
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Youtube
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Google Images.
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Videos
Videos are also good resources because they show the gardenin motion.They offer viewpoints you won't get from still images.
Reality
You rely onRealitytounderstand how different spaces and materials make you feel.
Getting ideas from Reality is very important.It gives you a better understanding of the size and scale of items.
Things like furniture, trees, plants, and materials.
You also ‘feel' spaces.When they are large, empty, isolating, and cold.Or warm, inviting, mysterious, and intimate.Some spaces evoke contemplation (like above).Others promote fun and play.
By using your body to measure a space you, will understand the what spaces you findcomfortable.Then you can try toreplicate that feelingin your garden.It also tells you what youdon't like– what toavoid.
Be careful of falling in love with generic '38 Garden Design Ideas' type articles.These articles offer "solutions" to problems, but are veryinflexible.They don't answeryourspecific questions.Or tailor the answer toyourspecific situation.
Use them to help
generate ideas.But be sure to let your
environmentdetermine
how they come togetherin your design.