To start designingyour garden, you need to think about what you really want. Take a blank sheet of paper and NOTE your answers. This will help you in the future.
To do this, I’d like to take you back to your own relationship and history with Le Jardin, with Les Jardins.
What are your best memories of gardens?
Child: with your parents? in your grandfather’s/mother’s vegetable garden? on vacation? or just the communal garden or abandoned plot where you used to build tree houses?
Adult: in the family? that garden you visited on vacation where you immediately felt at home? at a friend’s house?
In relation to these memories, what would you like to find in your new garden project: an atmosphere, a lifestyle, spaces that resemble you…conviviality…practicality….
Stimulate your senses:
If so, which ones: flowers, rose, jasmine, undergrowth….search deep into your olfactory memory for the striking elements you’d like to find again.
Do you particularly want to find sounds? if so, what sounds would you like to hear: birds, water from a fountain or waterfall, wind in the grass, music…
Sound is often overlooked, even though it creates an acoustic ambience that complements your outdoor décor. A murmur of water will be conducive to calm and rest, music to relaxation or celebration, the wind in a bamboo will give a country spirit…
The same goes for tastes: would you like to rediscover the taste of those strawberries you ate as a child on vacation… or those tasty skewers cooked on the barbecue? Creating a garden is also a way of rediscovering simple things and neglected tastes. The best example is mint: if grown in the right conditions, it will subtly spice up your dishes. What could be better than a tabbouleh with fresh mint from the garden?
This research into your innermost wishes means that the creation of your landscape design will take into account a whole range of elements that go beyond planting a few flowers and arranging garden furniture… So right from the start of creating your garden or terrace, ask yourself the right questions…just as a
landscaper
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Next step: the ambience and style of your future garden.
