Professional Landscape Architects and Designers in East Grinstead

TOP TIP: MAKE YOUR OWN SHAPES DOMINATE The basic theory is this; you will always look at the largest most dominating feature, it demands your attention. If that feature is lovely (like a view over the countryside) then great, if it isn’t, you need to make your own ‘view’ – and you do that with a new shape. What to do in your own garden Take a picture from an upstairs window, and if possible use some photo editing software to delete the existing clutter. Then you can begin to play around with the big shape of the lawn. Try to use whole shapes as much as possible, as you need a dominant feature to compete with the boundary shape. Offset the angle of the lawn too, this can help make a garden feel wider or longer. Lastly don’t worry about the funny-shaped ‘offcuts’ in the garden, these will become the new borders. Plants are very good at hiding ‘wonky’ things! Once you have a shape you like you need to add plants. The most important design trick here however is: Make sure some of the plants grow taller than the fence lines Choosing plants can be a bit tricky – luckily for you, we have sorted that problem.