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Selecting The Right Garden Decor

Gardens are not just places where you grow plants and vegetables. To complement your green thumb, improve your outdoor decor to make your garden look beautiful even without flowers. Here are some suggestions to consider:

Scale - there is nothing lousy than something that is too large or too small. Determine how big your space is and pick the right decor. Break up big, uninterrupted barren outdoor walls with something big too like a cedar planter or trellis. Putting together items of the same size can help take up space and make an inviting visual appeal.

For instance, at the corner of the patio put a huge trellis with climbing, flowery vines. In front of the trellis position a wicker chaise lounge and a cute side table beside it. A little wrought iron candle lamp or bonsai plant will look best on top of the table. The scale of each item should be carefully accounted for to make the entire scene work well.

Balance - this is achieved when all decorative items work as one to become something bigger than the sum of their parts. Be sure that no decoration overshadows, competes or trumps other items in an ensemble. Select an item as a main point with all other items supporting that choice.

Rhythm - in design, rhythm is a word that describes the frequency or how often an item or a pattern repeats itself. The best way to describe this is by using real outdoor dcor examples like a string of patio lights, the pickets in a fence, the stripes on a patio cushion, or the pattern in a brick or stone sidewalk. Utilizing an item to create rhythm can give a backdrop against which other, more melodic elements can shine.

Harmony - like balance, harmony is a synergistic word that tells what happens when contrasting items are grouped together. Contrasting colors, shapes and textures must be able to complement one another, work together and give more to the scene than any one of them could by itself.