Earth Wood and Flowers Landscaping knows
that, people are attracted to natural movement in the garden or landscape. Water cascading into a pool, for instance, always attracts attention.
Grow plants that will attract
visitors: Butterflies and humming birds are among the easiest and prettiest quests to entice. You'll have to allow some
natural food for the caterpillars and plenty of flowers that provide nectar for humming birds, but the activity in the garden
and landscape is wonderful.
Use plants that accentuate the movement
of the wind as it blows through the garden. Plants with paper-thin leaves flutter like birds, creating interest through
movement.
Many plants, particularly ornamental grasses with flower
and seed heads high atop tall, slender stalks, produce a quiet rustle with seed against seed creating a natural wind chime.
Summer breezes add romance to a garden landscape, carrying the fragrance of Jasmine or moon-vine, or roses through the air.
Scent is one of the garden's most subtle delights. As fragrance drifts through your
garden landscape, the visitor will feel inspired and refreshed.
Choose
plants that will best suit the natural effects of exposure to the sun. The sun can different effects throughout the
day creating a sense of movement in the landscape.
The introduction
of shade provides relief for plants and daily movement of color and mood. A plant needing full sun may do well even
if it is shaded for a few hours in the late afternoon, but a shade-loving plant might burn if it receives a few hours of sun
during the afternoon.
A landscape in the morning ha s charscteristics
that may not be evident during the later, shady hours.
During
a summer day when the sun is rising, parts of a shady landscape may light up with sunlight and then give way to dappled shade as the sun rises higher in the sky. Plants and construction
materials appear to take on different textures and a sense of movement as the angle of the sun changes.
Sun and shade are constantly changing the feel and mood of your garden or landscape
from hour to hour and season to season.
These are just a few of the considerations Earth Wood and Flowers Landscaping uses when
designing and planning your landscape.
