ELEGANT LANDSCAPE DESIGN

                                   LANDSCAPE DESIGN IS THE ART OF ARRANGING OR MODIFYING THE FEATURES OF A YARD, AN URBAN AREA, ETC., FOR AESTHETIC OR PRACTICAL REASONS. FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSE, IT IS OFTEN DIVIDED INTO TWO MAJOR PARTS: HARDSCAPE AND SOFTSCAPE. STUDENTS OF THE FIELD BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH A NUMBER OF CONCEPTS THAT DEAL WITH HOW THE VIEWER PERCEIVES THE LAYOUT OF A LANDSCAPE AND HOW THE DESIGNER CAN CHANGE THAT PERCEPTION SUCH AS 

                                     1) UNITY

                                     2) BALANCE

                                     3) PROPORTION

                                     4) TRANSITION 

                     LANDSCAPING IS MORE OVER-ARCHING OF THE TWO AND IS OFTEN SELF-TAUGHT. STUDYING LANDSCAPE DESIGN CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE SUPERIOR LANDSCAPING BECAUSE  MANY ASPECTS OF LANDSCAPING PROFIT GREATLY FROM A DESIGNER'S EYE.

                        SINCE THE PLANTS ARE KNOWN AS THE HEART OF THE DESIGN, KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCIENCE OF HORTICULTURE IS ONE OF ITS CRITICAL COMPONENTS. THE FIELD IS, HOWEVER MORE OF AN ART THAN A SCIENCE.SOME DECISIONS WILL BE BASED NOT ON HARD FACT, BUT ON PERSONAL TASTES, INTUITION, OR CURRENT CONSENSUS.

                            THERE IS NO SET OF HARD SCIENTIFIC FACTS TO WHICH ONE CAN POINT TO MAKE THE CASE THAT A CURVED DESIGN IS BETTER THAN A STRAIGHT ONE.ON AN UNCONSCIOUS LEVEL , WE SEEM CONVINCED THAT A CURVED FOUNDATION  PLANTS WORKS BECAUSE IT DOES A BETTER JOB OF SOFTENING THE OVERWHELMING LINEARITY OF A HOUSE WALL.