Landscaping adds more than beauty to a home; it can increase both its value and reduce noise pollution by filtering noise with plants.

Landscapes include both hardscape and softscape components. Hardscape refers to nonliving elements like concrete, pavers and rocks while softscape refers to living components such as grass, flowers and trees.
Color

Color plays an integral part in landscaping as it can evoke emotions and establish focal points. When designing your landscape, consider what colors already exist in its surroundings and their relationships - such as those in your house, paving materials, fences and existing plants. Use the color wheel as a guideline to see which combinations harmonize and which clash.

Just as a painter uses color to evoke emotion, landscape designers select hues to set the atmosphere in their garden spaces. Warm hues like reds and yellows elicit excitement, while soothing blues and greens bring tranquility. Understanding these principles - unity, contrast, scale - is vital for DIY homeowners wishing for pleasing outdoor spaces that meet functional sustainability criteria. A good landscape designer knows how to balance them for maximum success when crafting functional gardens with visual appeal.
Space

Landscape design depends heavily on making use of space effectively, whether that means creating an equilibrium between soft and hard elements of your design or taking into account how much sun or shade certain areas of your yard receive; plants will flourish under both conditions.

Landscaping is the art of using horticultural science and artistic composition to craft functional yet visually stunning outdoor rooms for different uses. Landscaping requires an in-depth understanding of design principles such as proportion, order, repetition, unity and scale while carefully considering elements (visual qualities such as line, form texture color weight ). When done right landscaping can make your property more desirable while increasing value as well as lowering energy bills!