Landscape Advisories
Chapter 4
THE PATH TO UNIFIED LOGIC
As with almost everything, thinking in relationships will lead to unity in the outcome.
Unity in both the functional and pictorial aspects of a place can best be accomplished if the designed portions are located and shaped for good relationships to other parts of the landscape with which they will be interwoven. Any piece of your place that you alter or create affects other parts of a complex whole, so good design solutions come from looking for the best combined placement and shaping of the parts. This is the path to unified logic for your property.
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Plan Tomorrow Today
If you mentally place all the forseeable necessary features and the connecting paths early in the planning, even roughly, you can do a better job of finding places for everything in the end.
Often individual features can be designed to serve multiple purposes and so accommodate many different needs, but only if you plan for this integration.
“Setting is more than scene.”
John Stilgoe
To be deeply beautiful, the built landscape should be comfortable and correct in the way it takes care of its natural and unnatural inhabitants. The water, the soil, the creatures, the plants, the cars, bikes, woodpiles, trash bins and door latches will all benefit from considerate configuration.
You are creating a setting for life.
The logic of all of the parts of the property should come together before you build anything.
Even if only a few parts of the landscape will be built in the near future,you will want to mentally site all the things you may ultimately want before any work begins.
There will probably be a few wrong turns in your mental search for a path to a unified logic.
Try to tangibly imagine the physical things which must have placement in the landscape so that you and yours can live the way you want out of doors. With ideas of the features you want to be sure to have in your landscape in mind, you can begin to make good decisions about the use and linkage of the parts of the property. Mark the things you figure out onto real ground.
The things you need and want will each and all require physical places and comfortable access in your landscape. The placement of custom landscape needs such as gates, trash houses, tool, bicycle or boat shelters, outdoor working tables, swings or other such will be more difficult to accomplish nicely if these necessary elements have no planned places where they can go without detracting from the overall experience of your land.
Not leaving room for all probable features when you lay out your land may block you from ultimately having a complete product and good flow on the property, in the end.
As your first thoughtful year on the property goes along, take lots of photos and write down what you observe and learn. Note down your ideas and keep an ongoing list of considerations handy. Make lists of your intentions and goals, plants you love, looks you like. Save image clippings and network referrals. Keep everything in a folder together.
Where you begin the actual work process will then depend on priorities which consider both the logic and the physical logistics of the creation of the overall landscape.
A worthwhile landscape often takes some years to make, but it should follow a considered sequence, with first things first so as not to disturb finished work later.
The shaping of the land itself and the hardmaterials work almost always come first since you will be digging up some ground. Working with such fundamental elements can build in capabilities which shape subsequent development.
The enduring success of any outdoor living space, like any indoor one, will typically be dependent on its foundational work, a one time investment in its future. This kind of work is an expensive part of your landscape making process, but if done early in the sequence of building, it will often cost less in dollars and garden disturbance than if you try to do it later, in backtrack mode.
Proceed thoughtfully as there are many possibilities and repercussions of what is or is not done, down the road of time.
“A garden without stones is like a body without bones”
Allen C. Haskell (1)
D.M. Schneider
Site the elements you are considering on the real ground.
Go into as much detail with yourself or selves as possible, making decisions about what you and your land will need and want. Try to tangibly imagine the physical things which must have placement in the landscape in order that you and yours can live in the way you want outside. Realize that the things you need and want will each and all require physical places and comfortable access in your landscape. Keep an ongoing list of considerations handy.
When you think you like what you have designed, mark it. When you mark things onto the real ground, you can see, walk, and feel them.
Look over the combined design. If it isn’t just right, mow it, adjust things and try again.
“Where land is concerned, common sense must
study and decide, on the ground.”
Fletcher Steele (2)
Think through every project in realistic detail.
Consider the comings and goings of daily garden life.
Go everywhere with the imaginary trucks, wheelbarrows, tools, hoses and outdoor electricals. Think about the hard and soft materials your landscape will need over time, and leave access passageways.
Have a pretend party. You will be looking into your future.
LINK to Chapter 5 / Seeing The Shapes
1) Allen Haskell, Horticulturist, in conversation……..an often repeated thought from his Mason.
2) Fletcher Steele / Gardens and People
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