Want to get an idea of how you want your garden to look without hiring a designer? Try this. Print a digital image from your computer or scan your photo and print. With several copies, begin to play with lines, seating, buildings, arbors, etc. Your dreams become alive on the page, allowing you to better visualize your thoughts.
This technique in not just the poor gardener’s landscape design plan, its an amazingly handy way to look at your garden and visualize change. Used by many experienced landscape designers, including myself, to help aid the homeowner in visualizing their garden.
Try it. You may just surprise yourself!
Helen Yoest is a garden writer and coach through her business Gardening with Confidence™
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Helen, This is going to be very helpful for me~Thanks! gail
I hadn’t ever thought of this. Brilliant!
Gail, I so glad you find it useful. It is amazingly simple to do and something anyone can do. H.
Thanks Robin. It is a tool I have used in my garden coaching business for years. I find homeowners can better identify with their own space overlaid with an idea than to begin right off with a plan.
I’ve done this with my garden, it’s very helpful for those of us who have trouble visualizing what something will look like.
I love this idea!
Too right, MMD, it just helps to visualize what something will look like. H.
Thanks Leslie, it is amazing how something so simple works so well. H.
This is a great suggestion. I wonder if my garden designer did that the other day when she was here?
Hey Carol, she may have…but you may not know about it. Hehe. H.
this really is such a great idea… i always forgot to d it though! i’m breaking out the post it to remind myself right now.. thanks!
This is a great technique – one I first saw used in a workshop with the great designer Walter Cudnohufsky.