Garden Design Shape Texture Chart

But plants with texture add another dimension to borders.

Garden design shape texture chart. Learn about planting design and combinations of form colour and texture. Plants can be divided into three main textures fine medium and coarse. Plant textures vary from very fine and airy to coarse with a whole range in between.

Gain the confidence to combine plants and colours to create particular styles or moods to suit your garden. Trees come in many shapes especially if pruned including columnar and globular shapes. We have plenty of other elements to consider such as colour shape height size soil and position.

Plant textures run the gamut from delicate and fine like a threadleaf coreopsis to the coarse and bold look of a wide rippled hosta leaf. There are many elements that go into designing a garden color form sound fragrance even the texture of the plants texture in garden design refers to the surface quality of the plant. Likewise tree forms range structurally from having the stiffly upright branches of lombardy poplar trees to the droopy quality of a weeping willow.

Most plants have a medium texture so adding those with. The element of form is defined as the shape of a plant and the structure of its branching pattern for a picture illustrating form see page 1.