Even the brownest thumbs are intuitive landscape designers thru a camera lens.
Looking at a picture & knowing: something bushy goes there, tall here, get rid of that, throw out those pots, curve the shrub border this way, add groundcover in that bare patch, move the chair closer, need new light fixtures, and the house cannot be painted white another moment & etc..
Your thoughts are probably on target but you don't know which plants, what color, style of furnishings, shape of terrace or lawn & etc. Then you get frustrated and toss out ALL of your ideas.
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Slow down. Trust your instincts. Take a landscape class about plants, take another about design & tour gardens. If you can't slow down, of course, hire a landscape designer. For DIY use the camera to help you design.
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Pics, above, were a surprise. The gates are at each end of my side garden. Not close in the landscape it was interesting coming across the gates, together, in photography. Seeing them together changes my perception of the side yard. How odd.
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Always learning.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
Ha! I do the camera thing inside when decorating. I use it when I'm stumped about a scrapbook page. How strange I never thought to use it in the landscape. Oh - I snap pix of the flowers, etc., but not the lay of the land.
ReplyDeleteGood advice.