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Showing posts with label landscape design inadequacies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape design inadequacies. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2011

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.