50 Ways to love your garden: Three – sketch your idea over a photograph
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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Tags: Garden Coaching, garden design, gardening
March 22nd, 2010 at 7:43 am
Helen, This is going to be very helpful for me~Thanks! gail
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:03 am
I hadn’t ever thought of this. Brilliant!
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:41 am
Gail, I so glad you find it useful. It is amazingly simple to do and something anyone can do. H.
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:43 am
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.
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:50 am
I’ve done this with my garden, it’s very helpful for those of us who have trouble visualizing what something will look like.
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:00 am
I love this idea!
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:11 am
Too right, MMD, it just helps to visualize what something will look like. H.
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:12 am
Thanks Leslie, it is amazing how something so simple works so well. H.
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:54 pm
This is a great suggestion. I wonder if my garden designer did that the other day when she was here?
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Hey Carol, she may have…but you may not know about it. Hehe. H.
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:08 pm
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!
March 24th, 2010 at 7:38 am
This is a great technique – one I first saw used in a workshop with the great designer Walter Cudnohufsky.