Garden Landscape Designs for the Creative Gardener

November 17th, 2010

It's cold, it's winter, and to gardeners everywhere, it's time to lie back and see in their mind's eye all the beautiful garden landscape designs they will achieve in their front and back yards in a few short months when spring turns up. To those with a serious case of the green thumb, every act of mucking about in the garden, digging, clearing up weeds, and lovingly nurturing their seedlings is about the greatest way to spend a warm afternoon. To these people, winter can't end soon enough. Some of the best garden landscape designs can be the simple ones - the ones that draw on the beauty of nature over the man-made.

Even if nature at its simplest can often be the most beautiful, gardeners often draw inspiration from an elaborate creation such as is a topiary. The thing about a recognizable animal or other shape that you train an evergreen plant into is that it brings a good deal of interest to everything else in a garden - and it brings sophistication. A patio completely covered in flowers can be such an inspiration. All you need is a simple stone patio built of intersecting
titles. Lay the tiles with a couple of inches between them, and plant little flowering herbs, and pink and violet flowers in the spaces in between. Not only will it help you make the most of the space you have, the effect will be priceless.

Most garden landscape designs don't make enough use of chamomile in their plans. Making an entire lawn path out of chamomile can be especially beautiful. The scent they bring to the atmosphere of your garden when you walk over these plants can be deeply satisfying. Of course, in areas that will not support chamomile, you could use thyme of one of many different available varieties. Pink is such a fashionable color for a garden. Many gardeners try their hand at garden landscape designs using pink flowers to border everything they can find. To make your pink theme work, you'd be best off grouping off areas dedicated to different shades of the color. Adding a little definition with green plants in places too can pronounce the beauty in the color of the flowers.

The best garden landscape designs work on the theme of a particular variety of plant. Most gardeners find that there is a particular species of plant that inspires them to work on an ambitious project to collect every variety that they can get their hands on. They're willing to give up a good portion of their space to dedicate to the beauty of this one plant. Of all the garden landscape designs there may be, ones like these may be the most inspired.