Integrating Texture Into a Design Garden

When choosing plants and garden materials, colors are easy to attract, but shape and texture are equally important. The success of the design depends on whether you combine different shapes and textures well, not only on a large scale but also with more detail. To emphasize the contrast, try visualizing the hard and soft landscape elements you are considering using in monochrome, paying particular attention to how light affects different shapes.

TYPES OF TEXTURE

Trying different decorations in the garden is the key to enjoying a sense of space. You can usually see how you feel by just looking at it, but as you explore, there may be more surprises in the store. Some shapes and surfaces produce a touch, and when there is a great contrast in texture, it will enhance the visual and physical effects. There are many basic categories that describe texture, some are associated with a specific feeling, while others are related to the effect of light on the appearance of matter.

ROUGH

For rough textures, choose gravel, dry stone walls, fences, bark peeling, or prickly plants.

SMOOTH

Choose flat or round surfaces, such as cubes, concrete balls, frying pans, smooth bark, and worn-out pebbles.

GLOSS

The garage gloss surface includes many evergreen plants, polished granite, stainless steel, chrome, fixed water and glazed ceramics.

MATT

Matte surfaces including cut wood, galvanized metal flower pots and sandstone are perfect for combining with glossy elements.

SOFT

The soft seed heads and grass-like stems cannot be ignored, as they are soft, lost, and irresistible fur leaves.

HARD

Hard, non-soft surfaces can be neither matte or glossy: cast metal, stone and concrete walls, fl stone, granite deposits and terrazzo flower pots.

COMBINING TEXTURES

To insert different materials, you can combine a flat surface with a decorative surface, a mixture of gloss and matte, a mixture of fine and rough, etc., but do not use a lot of materials, otherwise the garden may seem very busy. Mark differences to enhance contrast between the two components. For example, pair very vertical plants with a horizontal surface, or pair a bright stainless steel water feature with a fern fern and a jade host.

ROUGH WITH SMOOTH

This walled courtyard combines gravel and rough stone with smooth fields to create a dramatic effect. The dry stone water injection function cuts the transparent wall in half.

GLOSS WITH MATT

Glass doors and metallic luster reflect the visual quality of the pool. These elements are separated by a soft paved balcony and matte walls.

SOFT WITH HARD

The wooden aisles, circular terraces and zigzag walls ideally stand in front of the host of jade, iris, grass and "soft" lush plants on the edges.

ALL TEXTURES

This billiard garden shows how different textures can create exciting patterns even with a limited set of colors. The water acts as a mirror, and gravel provides satisfactory chips for the corridor.