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| Choosing a garden style that is right for you is a | | | | Asian Gardens |
| matter of choice. If you design your entire garden | | | | In the Asian tradition, landscape contemplation - in |
| according to a specific style, but sometimes just a | | | | the wild, in a garden, or in a scroll painting serves as a |
| few sensibly elements call to mind a style. | | | | spiritual experience. The Chinese and Japanese usually |
| Whether you’re trying to select flower garden | | | | held sacred the space within a garden and deemed |
| designs or trying out a new landscaping idea, the right | | | | the world outside profane. A number Japanese |
| garden plants and accessories will set the mood | | | | garden designs offer a rustic landscape and contain |
| you’re trying to reach. Landscape design | | | | wet or dry streams and waterfalls, bordered by |
| styles come and go, but certain century-old garden | | | | ferns, moss, and distorted pines. |
| styles continue to preserve their attraction. | | | | Lake and island style gardens, developed in China, |
| Any style be it Asian, cottage, formal, and others has | | | | influenced Japanese garden designs. Islands |
| its own characteristic details such as particular plants, | | | | symbolized the home of immortal spirits and |
| water features, and materials. Various features are | | | | consisted of carefully placed earthen mounds or |
| so strongly identified with a specific style that they | | | | jagged rocks set in an imitation pond. |
| immediately evoke the proper mood. | | | | Formal Gardens |
| Look below at these three lasting and respected | | | | While a love of plants or nature inspires cottage and |
| garden styles, then incorporate these style elements | | | | Asian gardens, formal garden designs express the |
| into your garden design for the look you want. | | | | humanistic value of people as the center of the |
| Cottage Gardens | | | | cosmos. A formal garden design looks it’s |
| The informality of cottage garden designs lends them | | | | utmost near a traditional-style home so the garden |
| an energy lacking in most garden schemes, none the | | | | exaggerates the home’s architecture. Formal |
| less the gardens are neither haphazard when the | | | | garden designs are symmetrical though the main |
| overall design is caringly structured. | | | | alignment often leads from a specific position near |
| These gardens express cheerfulness and zeal for | | | | the house (a balcony, front door, a stone terrace) to |
| individual plants. Cottage gardens originated centuries | | | | a focal point further away such as a pavilion, bench |
| ago as modest, fenced-in pieces of land kept by | | | | or sculpture. By continuing the geometry of the |
| cottagers who cherished wild-collected plant life for | | | | house outdoors, a formal garden layout makes a |
| its usefulness. Livestock and vegetables, berry | | | | transition to a wild or informal landscape at the edge |
| bushes, fragrant flowers, and herbs for crafts, | | | | of the property. property’s edge. |