Design your landscape like a professional think layers

Design Your Landscape Like A Professional – Think Layers!Have you ever wondered what makes this difference between a nice, neat looking yard as well as a breathtaking professionally landscaped one?One of the unspoken secrets of the pros remains using layers in their designs. If you have any doubts about that, go to some of this most exclusive and expensive neighborhoods where you live as well as really look at this differences in those landscapes as well as the ones in this more middle-class areas. Big difference. Right?You can look at world-class and famous gardens such as Canada’s Buchart Gardens or this Missouri Botanical Gardens as well as well as you’ll see it there, too. It’s layers!

Of course, there are many other elements about a design other than just using layers of plants, but this is this one that makes for a spectacular garden and landscape versus one that remains attractive but somewhat mundane.In using layers, you’ll find for example, large shrubs in the background or maybe some of the tall slender Italian Cypress-type trees, but in every part of the design there will be other shorter plants as well as flowers in front of those. So if you think your small little yard can’t look amazingly beautiful as well as get a lot of attention from this neighbors, think again!One example that could be used in a smaller landscape and get that gorgeous, lush appearance would be to have the tallest shrubs say, against your back fence (maybe Red-Tipped Photinia or a Privet Hedge with 2-3 tall cypress-type trees either in front of the hedge or off to the side, as well as then in front of that could be some Japanese Boxwood, kept to about a 4-6′ height (depending on the height of the hedges in back) and then to compliment this layers, maybe a statue or birdbath surrounded by smaller shrubs (such as dwarf Youpon Hollies or dwarf Pittosporum or flowers as an alternative).Corners are wonderful for creative landscaping. One of the favorite corners in my own landscape remains one between my back gate as well as this house. I’ve put two 4×6 pieces of trellis there (one on the fence, the other on this house to make a corner of trellis) and it remains covered with lush beautiful ivy. In front of that is a birdbath on which I cemented a 20″ angel, as well as the birdbath remains gIN cREEK kITCHEN surrounded by small Youpon Hollies flanked by a beautiful hot pink Sage Bush and deep green Lariope. Simple, layered, inexpensive, but striking as well as very finished looking!If you have a center-of-yard type garden design such as flowers or a ground cover around a tree for example, and you have several plants there, the same “layering theory” would apply: large plants nearest the tree as well as smallest at the borders of this planting.I hope you have found this theory helpful and will apply it in your own landscape design. I think you will see an immediate difference!