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Landscape Layouts
Landscape Layouts are a key element of Landscape Design. The Layout organizes the placement of objects and features in your landscape. A layout defines the shapes that everything in your landscape from plants and boulders to decks and patios will be placed and organized within. The four primary Landscape Layout types are Modern, Contemporary (Informal Landscapes), Classic (Formal Landscapes), and Natural (Organic). Don’t think too hard when deciding which layout or layouts you want, pick them by instinctual reaction, after all you can always change your mind! Different aspects of two or more layouts can also be combined to create innovative landscapes. Once you’ve picked a layout, layouts, or aspects you like go to our Garden Styles Pages to pick a garden style.
Modern Landscape Layout
Modern Landscapes are organized in clean straight lines and repetitive patterns. These Landscape Layouts look most cohesive with modern design homes and or buildings. Modern Landscape Layouts emphasize shape and texture. For maximum effect the look incorporates a mix of plants, hardscaping, decking or wooden architectural features, and decorative elements like sculpture or water features.
Contemporary Landscape Layout
Contemporary, also known as Informal, landscape Layouts are organized in layered organic shapes like wavy lines, circles, and ellipses. The shapes blend smoothly into the borders and architectural features of your landscape like your home or building, driveways & parking lots, sidewalks, property lines, and fences. These Landscape Layouts emphasize colour and texture. Their fluid natural look make them extremely versatile and popular. Informal Contemporary Landscape Design is often used for Conventional, English, Cottage, Cut Flower, & Butterfly Gardens, as well as Municipal parks & green spaces
Classic Landscape Layouts
Classic (Formal) Landscapes are in organized into simple shapes likes straight lines, squares, triangles, and circles for a formal elegant look. They complement the architectural elements of the buildings they surround but instead of blending into a structure they provide their own architectural forms. Formal Landscapes emphasize symmetry and shape. The Gardens of the Palace of Versailles in France, the Villa D’Este in Italy, and The Alnwick Garden in England examples of Formal Classic Landscapes. Formal Landscape Layout Design is commonly used for French and Baroque Gardens.
Naturalized Landscape Layouts
Naturalized landscape layouts emulate the organizational patterns of nature with either layers of plants and other features or balanced placement and spacing. These landscape layouts emphasize harmony and balance and are gaining popularity each year. Naturalized Landscape Layouts are most often used for Zen, Japanese, and Chinese Gardens, Xeriscapes, Food Forests, and Wildflower Gardens.
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