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Formal Gardening
Formal gardening is distinguished from other garden design styles by the sense that nature has been tamed for the purposes of serving the quality of human living. Order and symmetry are heavily emphasized through repeating...
Formal Garden Plants
The spacing of formal garden plants is vital to the success of all formal designs. Carefully spaced rows are often arranged in varying heights to promote the idea of order and symmetry. Rows also help...
Formal Garden Plans
Formal garden plans are always drafted with relationships in mind. Geometry and scale pay tribute to the architecture of the home and introduce powerful thematic overtones that affect the development of the entire surrounding landscape....
Small Formal Garden
One of the beauties of small formal gardens is the versatility of their placement. They can be placed anywhere in a yard, and they are by no means limited to small properties. In fact, very...
Formal Flower Garden
A formal flower garden is distinguished from a regular flower bed or decorative garden by two important characteristics. The first of these is deliberate patterning. By deliberate patterning, we mean the creation of immediately recognizable...
How Boxwood Shrubs can be used to Build Custom Gardens
There are 70 species of the genus Buxus that are collectively known as boxwoods. Some are very small, growing only inches tall. Others, such as the American boxwood, can reach heights of up to ten...
Add Vertical Impact to Formal Gardens
Climbing vines add vertical impact to formal gardens. On larger estates this is very important. If a yard is very large, a large garden may appear to low to the landscape without some type of...
Formal Landscape Plants
Formal landscape plants are normally slow growing plants whose compact appearance allows them to be arranged in repeating patterns. By using a few number of plant species, and by arranging them in predictable patterns of...
What Shrubs work good for Formal Gardens?
A formal garden is defined by clean lines and symmetry. It is typically square or rectangular in shape, and it has entrances in either the sides or the corners that lead into its central interior....