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IN THIS CHAPTER

Finding out about unity, repetition, color, and rhythm

Using accessories and hardscape to your advantage

Paying attention to details

Sizing and layering plants

Making an attractive, useful home landscape is both an art and a science. If you’re reading this book, you’re willing to giving it a go, right?

Designing your property makes it a good and appealing place to be, just like designing the indoors. Take into account your available space, and discover tricks that can make your outside seem either more open or cozier. Color, texture, size, and shape options are endless; the look just depends on your taste. You may well want to include accessories, from the practical to the purely decorative (or items that are actually both). You have lots of choices to ponder, lots of decisions to make, and lots of exciting possibilities to consider.

The object is to create a place that reflects your lifestyle, plant passions, and personality. No need to struggle or stress out with the myriad of choices you have, though. This chapter is here to provide a helpful tour of design principles, tailored to DIY landscapers. That’s you. You can do this.

Landscape is a living canvas. Over time, change is expected and inevitable — as in other areas in your life, nothing is permanent. Watch for opportunities in the future to return to this chapter (and this book) and cook up revisions, improvements, and new ideas.

You get to spend your time, creativity, money, and effort while you can. You’ll be maintaining and replacing both plants and hardscape elements while at this address. Live in and love your landscape. You take care of it, and it will take care of you. As the great poet William Blake once remarked, wisely, “Kiss the joy as it flies.”