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To conclude our guide to outdoor design, we’re going to summarize the points seen above on the layout of your garden/terrace.
To get started: dream of your garden of Eden, but come back to reality(listen to your senses), listen to your desires to guide your landscaping(choose an atmosphere).
Then plan and organize your outdoor desires according to the environmental constraints of the location(environmental constraints, water requirements) and your personal constraints(time to devote, water requirements).
According to these, translate
on a landscaping plan, which seems reasonably feasible. You can either do it on graph paper or, if you like computers, with free garden software.
To best integrate your new exterior layout, respect and build in continuity with the existing environment and/or your interior. Find a guiding thread (a plant, a color, a material, a theme – water, wind…) that will make the work uniform.
Start by creating the various desired zones(expectations and needs) and the traffic axes connecting them, drawing curves rather than straight lines.
Preserve existing views and create new ones from your home, remembering that you’ll be enjoying your outdoors from the inside most of the year.
Once the landscaping elements have been determined (terrace, pergola, water feature, etc.), start by positioning the structuring plants at visual focal points, often placed in the background: trees, shrubs, climbers, alternating evergreens and deciduous plants (which are often more floriferous and bring rhythm -season- to the garden). To choose the right plants, see choosing plants.
Remember to always repeat these plants, ideally three times (or more if you have a large garden, in odd numbers), as they give consistency to your garden design.
Next, position the perennials in the background, choosing a harmony of shape and color of flowers and foliage to match the desired mood(choose a mood). Remember to choose plants that flower alternately throughout the year, because all too often after the spring and summer explosion, gardens and terraces are sad in autumn and winter.
Finally, to bring cheerfulness to any season, select annuals that will give “pep” and fill in the gaps while the evergreens settle in. Repeat them in your garden to create an overall harmony.
Once your landscaping plan is complete, check that it fits in with your budget (landscaping objects, plants, garden decorations, tools for its realization, bags of potting soil and fertilizer for planting, labor if necessary…). review the landscaping project if out of budget. Don’t hesitate to get quotes from several garden centers or nurseries, as you can save up to 30% on a single project. Don’t forget to check out the garden centres on the Internet!
At last, get started!!! order and start making in the same order as the creation (see above).
Tips: anticipate maintenance and run a large pipe under the structure (path, low wall…), through which you can later run garden hoses and electrical wires for lights and pond pumps.)
Avoid these common mistakes:
-Ignore the previous points!
-Failure to check that your desires match your budget before taking the plunge
-Not taking sufficient account of environmental constraints and not putting the right plant in the right place (e.g. hydrangea facing south in the south of France, and an olive tree planted facing north in Pas de Calais).
-Don’t rush to plant flowers before you’ve finished building or planting trees.
-Multiplying different species and creating a catalog garden without harmony or unity
To simplify your life, Mon Jardin Ma Terrasse has thought of everything and offers you ready-made gardens designed by landscapers who take into account all the constraints of your exterior. So why bother creating when a landscaped garden already exists?
Finally, when you’ve finished creating your exterior with our software, we’ll send you a precise planting plan by email, showing you exactly where to plant your arrangements, as shown below.
On your marks, get set, move in!