What are the principles of garden design?

What are the principles of garden design?

Tracy DiSabato-Aust (Garden Designer and Author) gives expert video advice on: What factors will determine my garden design?; What are the principles of garden design?; How will maintenance affect garden design? and more...

There is different terminology that will explain the principles of garden design, but I like to use order, unity and rhythm. We can look at that as our principles of design - order, unity and rhythm so we might have symmetrical balance. We would have mass collection where we are using plants in masses. We would look to dominance where we might have a piece of art or a color that would be the focal point. We look at repetition - repetition of color, repetition of texture or form and you might look at repetition of rhythm as well, how the garden changes or undulates. That is small plants moving into medium growing plants and into tall plants. It all creates these principles of order, unity and rhythm.