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There are many different garden landscape ideas that a person can come across just by reading a book or a magazine about garden design. The garden landscape ideas vary depending on what kind of garden the home owner wishes to have in his home. Formal gardens, vegetable gardens, flower gardens and many others are available for the perusal of the home owner. One of the more enviable garden landscape designs are those of the formal garden. The formal garden designs are usually never cluttered and have set boundaries and borders. There are still many formal garden landscape ideas that can be added to any formal garden without reducing the effect of one. The homeowner has the prerogative to hire a landscaping service or do it himself. Formal Garden Suggestions A garden landscape idea needs to coordinate with the clean lines and clutter free environment of the formal garden. There are usually low rock borders or cement borders for most formal gardens and these can have more life to them if it is not the traditional rose bushes that are added to these. Another garden landscape design alternative to the traditional plants are tulips, .. more »

Landscape Gardening Landscape gardening has often been likened to the painting of a picture. Your art-work teacher has doubtless told you that a good picture should have a point of chief interest, and the rest of the points simply go to make more beautiful the central idea, or to form a fine setting for it. So in landscape gardening there must be in the gardener's mind a picture of what he desires the whole to be when he completes his work.  From this study we shall be able to work out a little theory of landscape gardening.  Let us go to the lawn. A good extent of open lawn space is always beautiful. It is restful. It adds a feeling of space to even small grounds. So we might generalize and say that it is well to keep open lawn spaces. If one covers his lawn space with many trees, with little flower beds here and there, the general effect is choppy and fussy. It is a bit like an over-dressed person. One's grounds lose all individuality thus treated. A single tree or a small group .. more »