Understanding the elements of color, texture and scale will bring you closer to achieving the landscape design of your dreams. The use of color is probably the most complex of the three, because it ...

The contrast in size and shape with the foliage in this photo makes the cute little chicken all the more interesting. Once upon a time a young refinery worker had one too many before heading home. It ...

The most popular element in landscape design is color, but texture is another important building block. Texture in gardening can be seen as well as felt, and is used primarily to provide contrast.

REDLANDS >> Planning and restraint can be a gardener’s best friend in landscape design. “People are often impatient and want instant gratification, so they plant several things and then over time they ...

It is easy to be attracted by colour when selecting plants and materials for your garden to the extent of forgetting all the other important design qualities. Yet it is these subtle qualities that ...

Oftentimes landscape designers are called in to execute a one-time overhaul or to create an instant landscape for a site that’s been ravaged by construction. Every once in a while, though, they’re ...