Create your garden in such a way that visitors see not only your plants but the view of a mountain, a river, or, in New York, buildings. ![]() Eyes are the key, along with the imagination.Īnother design principle used heavily at the High Line is: borrow a view. All this really becomes possible for me when I have plants in hand and I can see - and then imagine them in a year, in five years, in 10. Let one portion of a garden be special in spring, another in fall. ![]() Or create waves of color, masses of color instead of sprinkling little bits of color in the garden. ![]() For example, create mystery or tension by obscuring part of the garden with plants (or hardscape), thus leading viewers into the next portion of the garden along a path. Yes, I know some basic design principles.
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