Garden Design
Simple Garden Designs
By its very nature, simple garden design is based on awareness that less is actually more. Its intention is not to create grandiose adventures in outdoor living, nor any wild sense of the exotic. Instead,...
Courtyard Garden Design
Courtyard garden design, by definition, is the creation of special garden elements in one or more spaces within a courtyard. Because courtyards themselves are the most individualized form of outdoor rooms, courtyard garden design features...
Designer Gardens
The first thing to acknowledge about designer gardens is that “garden” is a noun and a verb. It seems that double usage was intentional since a garden is a place of action. Life happens here...
Entry Gardens
Entry gardens are extremely important to both home architecture and general landscape design. They serve as transition areas between indoor living space and outdoor landscape designs. These transition areas are not merely places to pass...
Vegetable Garden Design
The standard vegetable garden most of us visualize requires little, if any, design per se. It is normally nothing more than a rectangular area plowed out of the earth that is level with surrounding soil....
Southern Garden Design
Houston is a unique year round southern garden Houston is a unique style of the southern garden because of our location to the Gulf coast. Our climate is a mixture of the hot humid south...
Green Garden Design
“Green” is an interesting word these days. It, of course, still means the primary color green. However, recently it has taken on the new meaning of being ecologically helpful, prudent and sustainable. Within the context...
French Garden Design
French garden gardens use the same of geometry and symmetry that André Le Nôtre established in the 17th Century. The Lodge at Versailles had originally been a quite retreat used for royal hunts, but Le...
Parterre Garden Design
A parterre garden is a type of formal garden created by 16th Century French nursery designer Claude Mollet. Mollet based his design on the square boundaries and elaborate interior patterns of English knot gardens. However,...