Many home landscapes burst with color in early summer, only to fade into a flat, uninspiring green by midseason or become ...

The most popular element in landscape design is color, but texture is another important building block. Texture in gardening can be seen as well as felt, and is used primarily to provide contrast.

Understanding the elements of color, texture and scale will bring you closer to achieving the landscape design of your dreams. The use of color is probably the most complex of the three, because it ...

The most popular element in landscape design is color, but texture is another important building block. Texture in gardening can be seen as well as felt and is used primarily to provide contrast.

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It is easy to be attracted by colour when selecting plants and materials for your garden to the extent of forgetting all the other important design qualities. Yet it is these subtle qualities that ...