Home Garden Design

Glorious home garden designs inspire us, essentially affecting how we experience our living environment. Gardens are places of rest, where we re-create in the most basic sense of that word. Gardens are about pleasure, sensual and tactile. They are ever-evolving—where you can see change each passing day, season, year.

A vital outdoor landscape design, created, installed and maintained by Exterior Worlds, opens up a realm of possibilities. We help Houston outdoor living come to life with a customized home garden design. We invest each plan with fresh and inventive ways that make your garden engage the senses. Our aim is to turn your garden into a place where plants—and people—flourish.

In contemplating a home garden design, we encourage our clients to think in terms of creating harmony with colors. For instance, we might combine yellow pansies, blue bachelor’s buttons and purple lavender, layered against each other. It is similar to mixing voices together, but instead of a chorus of bass, alto and soprano, you have a choir of color.

We also like home garden designs that celebrate our regional character, maybe highlighting tropical plants. We also think it is important to complement your home’s architecture. For instance, use a Tuscany garden theme to enhance a Mediterranean-style home.

While planning a garden, we discuss with clients which plants should lead the design. This idea embraces the philosophy that says there needs to be emphasis on both hardscapes and softscapes. This idea underscores the point that concrete, paved paths, fences and walls are necessary but also static. Greenery and plants enliven the composition. It is the soft, growing life against the hard, solid mass that captures our attention and imagination.

Other elements we might factor into our designs:

• Landscape lighting design. A well-designed lighting plan extends the gratification you derive from your gardens by letting you enjoy it at night. The introduction of wavering shadows, soft light and full darkness lets you take in the scene with new eyes.
• Custom fountain designs. With a variety of styles to choose from, including water wall fountains, and pool water fountains, water fountains create a wonderful ambiance in gardens. In selecting a fountain, we encourage our clients to be cognizant of their home’s architecture and other material choices they have made. Another water element idea is a pond landscape design which makes a beautiful addition to a backyard. Ponds, when stocked with colorful fish like koi, have the additional benefit of putting movement into your landscape.
• Rock landscape design. Rocks and stones bring unique qualities to a garden. They encourage patience and restraint in a too-busy world. They have an innate steadiness, counterbalanced by graceful fluidity. A stone landscape could provide the tranquility your soul seeks.
• Vegetable garden design. If your tastes run toward the functional and the aesthetic, you might consider a vegetable garden, something that makes sense in these ecologically-sensitive times. All the time, energy and effort you put into a vegetable garden is well worth it when you bite into a plump homegrown tomato or taste the sharpness of your very own green onions.

Exterior Worlds, for all your landscape needs.