Personalized Labels in the Garden Reflect the Designer’s Brush
Visit an art gallery and it’s easy to see that there are a wide variety of paintings. Some paintings are intended to arrest and grab your attention. Others are meant to accurately depict events. Still, others seem created for the mere pleasure that comes through viewing. In the same way, your garden or landscape is a canvas upon which you can paint and create a specific response. If you’d like to create a soft and peaceful aura, then there are a few design elements you will want to include. Think of tucking personalized labels underneath your plantings as a sort of artist’s signature.
It’s All About the Base (Lines)
The difference between many movements in the art world has to do with brush strokes. Are they long or short? Hard or soft? Literal or suggestive? For you, the lines are equally important. Lazy, curving lines are visually relaxing. They put people at ease even while they create a sense of energy for the garden landscape. By contrast, hard straight lines and squared off garden spaces come off as regimented. Even if you can’t completely redesign your landscape contours, if you can add in some gently swerving edges you’ll add interest and peace to the hardscape.
One More Time
Another trick to creating a more tranquil landscape is the repeated use of a specific design element. Maybe you lay a walking path that repeats the stone or color of your patio. Using the same shrub or plant along the line of sight draws the eye into the landscape (and down a path or around a corner). Repetition reflects order and continuity and the mind finds this quite restful. If you use different varieties of the same plant be sure to place personalized labels beside each variety for clarification.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Nature’s rainbow can give you a clue when it comes to choosing colors for the landscape. Let the rainbow be your palette guide. On the one hand, it is restful to see gardens full of variations of a single hue. Shades of green make a soothing presentation, for instance. But with some forethought you can get the same easy feeling from a vista that incorporates multiple colors. The trick is to stay within a certain spectrum of the rainbow (or color wheel). Use plants exclusively from a specific color range (blues, indigos and violets or red, orange and yellows). The colors which are neighbors in the rainbow will make for a gentle ambience when grouped together or in succession. If you add colors from other sections of the rainbow spectrum it can be visually jarring.
Choose Personalized Labels From Kincaid
By placing personalized labels for all of your plants below your garden shrubbery you will make the garden more interesting and give visitors a reason to slow down, stop and enjoy the picture you have created. Like an artist, you will have painstakingly crafted a space meant to encourage peace and reflection. So sign your artistry with plant labels from Kincaid Plant Markers – makers of the very best personalized garden markers.
