If you live in a beautiful detached house with a garden or in a trendy loft downtown, designing your green space is a must. Choosing the shrubs, the flowers and the furnishing accessories that adorn our garden in a refined and elegant way is very important. Not all solutions are suitable for the climate of your space.
Most gardens do have some places in shade and there are also many plants that absolutely need the sunlight. Here are some precious tips to design your garden with a perfect harmony of colors and materials.
At first you need to know that there are different kinds of shadow. Let’s see the different types of exposure and the most suitable shrubs.
Even when designing your lawn you must pay attention to its exposure to the light. If the garden is in shade you have to choose a mix of suitable seeds. Alternate grass and decorative elements like white gravel or bark shavings to give balance, grace and elegance to your green space.
Trees with thick foliage must have a lightened and frayed crown, with fever branches. This way the sunlight will filter trough the leaves and illuminate them as well as the flower below. Pruning the plants correctly also prevents the appearance of with pain, a disease that depletes shrubs and causes extensive damages. Besides maintaining the trees keeping the ground constantly wet helps protecting vegetation.
Now that you know all the tricks to design a trendy green space in shady places you can start creating your corner of paradise.
Marco Sandrini, Chief Landscape Designer at Sandrini Green Architecture