LandscapExperts Tip of the Week, August 22

Landscape Renovation: Analyzing Aesthetic + Visual Problems

Design Inadequacies from the past may present a challenge to building managers and residential boards. For example, formal, symmetrical plantings (see Blog on Balance as a principle of design), or rigid, mirror-image groupings are hard to maintain over time due to individual plant differences as well as environmental microclimates.

Plants that must be pruned in an artificial shape ( See Facebook Group, Crimes Against Horticulture ) take a lot of effort with little yield.

Plants that have been planted in straight lines like soldiers at attention are not a comfortable fit and will need to be redesigned to soften the architecture.