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we are building a new home and i want to know cool modern tips and designs for a garden?

picture will help alot

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1. well make a path way and put palm trees down beside it and some shrubs red roses or white some sun flowers any colourful flowers and make a garden for fruit and veges but out changing lights out by the palm trees so u can go down the path way at night we have them at night its the best u should try it hope this helps!!!!!
2. A friend of mine was found asking the same question form many weeks. He heard many ideas but didn't like any. Then, he started reading about home improvement plans and made his own plan which satisfied his needs. I think it's the same with everyone. There are A LOT of ideas and designs and you probably can't follow each of them because they all come with a different taste. First, you will have to define your own taste and tell yourself, "This is exactly what I'm looking for!" In my opinion, you need to get a little as well as a lot of information for planning, building and remodeling a home. Once you know about the basics, you don't really need market designs, you can create and plan your own desires. If you are looking for Modern tips, you should follow Modern Decor Style for your home. Your contractor would be aware of it. And about the designer, designs and gardens, you need to take a little of your time and read these articles. I'm 101% sure that you will not only be able to solve your problem but also you will come up with a splendid plan. There are many ideas that are helpful for building a new home. Additionally, home improvement magazine and home improvement sites will also help you out. You can also get to know about contractors. In short, there is all what you need to know. I'm providing all the related links for your convenience. Regards, Aron
3. Planting will depend on your climate - but, in general, I recommend bushes and trees that are fragrant and/or flower. Examples - roses, of course - every garden should have roses! Just Joey, Angel Face, Chrysler Imperial are just a few - bush form, standards and climbing. Rosemary and Lavendar have both flowers and fragrant foliage - and you can use the rosemary in your cooking. If you have the space - build an arbor big enough (stand alone or attached to the house) to comfortably hold a table and 6-8 chairs - for outdoor entertaining or just relaxing. Have climbers such as a wisteria, a climbing red fragrant rose - or both trailing up the posts/pillars. Surround the arbor with flowering bushes such as azaleas, brunfelsia, bush roses (fragrant), chinese lanterns - plus a small plot or more of cottage flowers (e.g snapdragons, cosmos, foxgloves, lobelia) Try to make it a 'room' of its own. Whatever you plant - make sure the soil is good - well drained, composted and the right ph. A 5 dollar hole for a 5 cent plant is better than a 5 cent hole for a 5 dollar plant.
4. When designing a garden, they say start with the bones. That would be the trees and shrubs that make up most of the structure. Think of your landscape as an extension of your home, forming outdoor rooms and functional areas. Living room with fire pit, potted plants, chairs, tables, etc. Play areas for your favorite sports or kid's area. Meditation areas with water features. Whatever you want. Form the areas using plants. Make a panoramic photo of your area, and use wipe off pens to draw in the shapes and find what you like. Try pyramidal at house corners and rounded shapes below to make eye fall gradually to ground level. This also hides drain spouts. Draw in areas you want to screen. Make note of limits like a shrub hedge no higher than 3 feet so I feel separate from the kids play area, but I can still see them, etc. Draw birds eye view of shrubs and tree installation plan including size and shape, note sun exposure times and amounts, and take this info to a local nursery for help. Plant in odd numbered groups unless you are trying to create a focal point like either side of a gate. Once you have the bones of the garden in, then you can get the modern look through details. Many people like the Japanese style gardens with paths of tiny gravel pieces, almost gravel dust. They keep them raked, even raking with patterns. Add Japanese statues and Japanese plants, their are many that are well adapted to US. My favorite is the Hinoki evergreen shrub. Another modern rave is using all one color of flower. Many people will choose white, for the nighttime effect, but careful some white flowers look really bad when they are declining. If you don't mind cutting them off, then go for it. Coordinate flowering shrubs like Camillas, Azaleas, etc with flowering annuals and perennials. Red is hard to coordinate, pink is easy. Don't forget to mind your textures. Big leafed plants look good beside a contrasting small leaf plant. Rough leaves contrast smooth. Do the panoramic photo from each area of view. If you need help with creating photo contact me, I'll explain how. Visit www.asla.org, and go to garden shows that should start in Feb or March for more ideas. Good luck have fun.
5. Best results will be obtained by a Garden Designer or a Landscape Architect. These very important first impressions should not be relegated to an amateur. But that said, some basic modern concepts you may want to have included: A) Massing plants, rather than onesey-twoseys. B) Flowing rounded lines rather that angled lines. C) Loose but balanced asymmetry as opposed to oppressive symmetry. D) Use of naturally-shaped native species (or species native to parts of the world obviously similar to your own), as opposed to exotic species that look out of place in their surroundings. F) Lightly pruned and shaped natural appearances rather than perfect globes and boxes. G) Restrained repeating of one to three floral colors in different forms rather than all different colors scattered all over the place. H) Conscious contrasting of foliar colors and textures with the next, in order to entertain the eye, instead of all the same shade and texture of green, blending right from one plant species into the other. Some great books for ideas, concepts and great photographs are those by Garden Designer John Brookes.