Splendor In The Grass
By Lisa Goodman

This spring, celebrate the great outdoors and honor your inner green thumb. Through landscape design, you have unlimited possibilities to create a personal retreat and make a unique statement about who you are. You can design an exclusive destination that provides an unforgettable backdrop for outdoor living. Your landscape can leave a lasting impression with an expansive lawn, formal garden, or treasured topiary. Turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. Craft a beautiful and distinctive landscape with sustainable design features that embrace each season. Your effort will be enjoyed and appreciated for generations. A successful landscape design utilizes contrasting surfaces, colors, shapes, and textures throughout the site planning, construction, and plant selection. You must take the climate, path of the sun, traffic patterns, and the strength and weaknesses of your lawn into consideration. Accommodate the transitions and contours of your landscape. These natural features define individual spaces, varying elevations and wide expanses. Select trees that will be a prominent feature or add a canopy of trees for shade. Limit elements that create visual competition by attending to the scale, height and proportion of trees, shrubs and plants. Most importantly, create a sense of discovery directing attention from one area to the next.
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