Lawn Landscape Design

Lawn landscape design involves more than taking care of your yard. It actually has more to do with craftsmanship than mowing. The lawn is treated like a unifying fabric that is shaped into a design that connects all the many elements of residential landscape design. Both organic and inorganic forms are included in this. The point of lawn landscape design is not to develop the greenery at the expense of human form, but instead to unite green elements with fantastic figures of stone, tile, wood, brick, and gravel. Only then can we say that the lawn has truly been designed, and only then can we truly call it a landscape.

Gardens are one of the more important elements of lawn landscape design. Gardens do several things to make a yard look larger and more vibrant than it originally appeared. For one thing, they add a vertical aspect to otherwise flat terrain. No matter what types of plants are growing in a garden, they are always taller than surrounding grasses and provide focal points of awareness to anyone who has just stepped outside. Any number of garden designs can be developed in a Houston landscape. Our flat terrain provides us with limitless opportunity to create any design we choose. Styles are chosen to compliment home architecture and outdoor activity theme. Colors are used to distinguish garden elements from ordinary lawn elements and to establish mood and tone for the outdoor setting.

Trees are also very important to lawn landscape design. Trees are magnificent and communicate a reality that is uniquely their own. They grow all over the world and are iconic pillars in human art, myth, and symbology. It is mandatory that landscape architects pay special attention to trees of any species or size. Larger trees provide shade and complimentary structure to outdoor seating areas, shade gardens, patios, courtyards, and arbors. Smaller trees are actually used in some types of gardens. Entry gardens and Japanese gardens rely on a number of smaller tree species to either add a vertical, column-like aspect to their aesthetic or to work as organic walls that separate special space from open space.

There are also a number of inorganic elements that are essential to the success of lawn landscape design. It is important to give equal credence to these forms for two reasons. One reason is the obvious human need for structures that will support comfortable Houston outdoor living and also function as center points for outdoor events. Secondly, the deliberate and careful construction of hardscape designs in the midst of organic vitality lends form to the intangible longing to see human civilization somehow return to balance and harmony with Nature.

To do this we have to think about what people like to do in the backyard and front yard and map out interest points that will later provide foundation for specific structural elements built to accommodate these activities. Natural transit points can be developed into walkways made of stepping stone, polished concrete, or running bond brick. Open areas between trees can become the new locations for courtyards, arbors, outdoor kitchens, outdoor fireplaces, and ponds. Architectural walls and fountains can be placed virtually anywhere to create worlds within worlds and special realms of light, water, sound, and motion.

In all of this we work to create an embodiment of lifestyle and heart-felt beliefs that are better expressed through forms instead of words. It is so much better for someone to create a lawn landscape design that represents who they are in spirit and to simply invite the people who matter to come over.

It is more pleasant and truthful for people to live who they are rather than vainly attempt to explain who they are with fear-based inner dialogue, and it creates true society free from the inner tyranny of social conditioning in an outdoor setting of tranquility that combines the better parts of nature and architecture for the betterment of Man.