Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Landscaping Front Garden - Where to begin? 21Apr 02, 2010 12:59 am Oh and an excellent idae is to head to a library and flick through some books of landscapes around the world. Old and new. make notes of what you like in as many as possible. Just one thing in each. Many ancient Japanese and Chinese landscapes will have elements worth borrowing from. Very quickly you will have a whole list of ideas and thoughts that you can look at incorporating into your own design. I don't mean directly borrow them but more like you might see a red trim on a roof or a particular shade pattern on some paving or the detail in a brook. How the rocks are placed. Then shape those to fit you garden. All together they will will begin to put a design in place for you. Then scratch out plan after plan and you'll get something special Ardo That is so funny! I wonder how many people know who Larry Haun is these days. I have a couple of young guys we call Mo 1 & Mo 2 who run a crew of 6 boys and… 9 15536 I recently finished my house and after landscaping, have begun to plan a fence. To be honest its been a bit of an afterthought so I'm after some much needed advice. The… 0 2055 Hmmm, I have checked your past posts and it seems that you are in NSW, not WA as I had thought. It pays to show your State in your avatar. Retaining wall regulations… 5 7865 |