Choosing a Design for a Beautiful Italian Water Landscape Garden
There may come a time when you’re trying to landscape your yard that you run into a brick wall as far as creativeness goes. Maybe there’s an area of your property that wishes something, but you can’t decide what, for instance. These are occasions when it’s good to stop and step back and take a look at what others have made that might stimulate your own creative juices. In planning a water feature for your yard, you should investigate different types of water gardens that have been developed over the years in order to find elements that you can update and work into your own design. One of the searches you can do to find inspiration is to have a look at photos of some of the wonderful Italian water gardens, some of which have graced the landscape for centuries.
One of the most noted water gardens is Longwood which was made in Pennsylvania by Pierre du Pont, a person who actually liked to design with water. Naturally, you aren’t going to try and copy his garden in your own yard, unless you have lots of additional space, because Longwood covers 1,050 acres, but you can find ideas while looking into the various elements that were incorporated into Longwood. Take a look at the employment of fountains, sculptures, and topiary which turned this standard lawn into a showplace. You can be aware of the lavish use of flowers to create carpets of color and see how they were woven into the general design of the property. On the Longwood website you can view pictures of layout and find concepts for such features as a children’s water garden and awood garden of local plants.
Spend a while having a look at the photograph of the Italian water garden at Thanksgiving Point on the web. Although you doubtless can’t build anything this elaborate, you can still get an idea about what a chain reaction fountain can be and the employment of generous arrays of flowers surrounding it. Another example of a sunken Italian water garden is Higham garden, avery formal, scrupulously maintained garden with sternly clipped hedges and stone walkways.
Any time your creativity stop flowing while you’re building a water feature in your own back yard, you can turn to net resources to get the ideas rolling again. Though these old Italian water gardens are much more formal and lavish than what we need for non-public water gardens at our homes, they can still provide us with the inspiration we need to keep ourselves worked up about the project.
Tags: Italian water garden, landscape, pond, water garden
Window Hardware | Jane | 06 February 2010 |
