Determine Your Landscape Style
When you create a landscape plan, consider many elements. Here are some questions to ask yourself to determine your style.
• How controlled do you like the plantings to be? More formal or more naturalistic?
• What feel do you prefer — urban, woodsy, tropical, Southwestern, California relaxed or Mediterranean formal?
• How densely do you like your landscape planted — with a dense plant cover or with a more individualistic plant quilt?
• Are you comfortable with the old standards, or do you prefer new exotics?
• Do you like the natural, relaxed shape of shrubs that sometimes can be picturesque with unusually angled branches, or do you prefer a look that’s tight and controlled?
• Would you be a friend of seedheads, or do they look too weedy to you? Can you stomach wispy grasses, or do you want them to be neat and clean looking at all times?
• Do you want your garden to look gorgeous right after installation, or can you wait for plants to mature?
Christiane Holmquist
Christiane Holmquist Landscape Designs
760-586-6065
cholmquistgardens.com
