As a professional landscape designer Los Angeles, the design of the garden may well dictate the species you plant and their arrangement. A formal composition may call for clipped hedges, carefully balanced trees and beds of particular species. An asymmetric garden may suggest sweeps of planting to provide rhythm and movement to lead your eye from place to place; while the creation of a minimalist design needs thoughtful positioning of architectural species to add counterpoint and drama in a just few carefully chosen locations. The garden style will reflect you own personality, will in turn drive the character of planting.
In the smallest of gardens planting space can be limited, meaning your choices need to be carefully thought out in order to achieve the best effect.
Where walls are dominant, climbers play an important role in softening the garden and cocooning you within a less harsh environment.
Fragrance may be essential and so, too, will be the interplay of shapes, forms and textures that are such an important element in the creation of a successful scheme.Plants appeal to all senses.
Many people forget that even in the smallest spaces it is possible to marry practicality to decoration. There is absolutely no reason why you should not be able to grow vegetables and fruit in the borders, on the walls or in containers. Herbs, too, will add welcome fragrance and year-round color to any garden.
