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Repeating elements — whether color, leaf shape, plant forms, lines, hedges, or groundcover — create a rhythm in your landscape, a pacing that you can control by your plant choices just like … scrolling through your playlists. If you want slow, smooth-flowing music, choose quiet colors and wide stretches of greenery. To jazz it up, look to bright hues and vertical forms, such as sword-leaved irises, vertical clumps of ornamental grasses, and decorative posts and columns.

The rhythm of your landscape can be as energetic as “Rocky Top” or as elegant as “The Blue Danube.” Any eye-catchers in the garden, if accompanied by neighboring plants of lower voltage, work to create a lively rhythm. Clipped shrubs, grasses, vertical plants, big-leafed plants, and anything bigger, brighter, taller, or otherwise strikingly different than its neighbors are all showoffs that grab attention. Use them to make your garden dance with a lively beat.

Restful rhythm makers include stretches of greenery, such as fern beds, shrub plantings, groundcovers, and cool-colored flowers in shades of blue, purple, or pastels.

Rhythm in a landscape design is partly psychological. You should feel comfortable.