A landscape drawing can be simple or complicated depending on your creativity and your knowledge of plant material. The novice landscape designer should concentrate on plant selection when starting their landscape drawing. Site selection for the plants based on their light and soil requirements is extremely important. You shouldn’t plant a full sun plant in the shade, nor should you plant a shade plant in the full sun. It is important to do your home work before you start your landscape drawing.
Keep in mind the growing requirements of each plant when putting together your landscape design. Make sure that you leave enough growing room for the plants when they are fully mature. If you install plant material too close together, it may grow together. Plants that were installed in too small of an area may hang over sidewalks or cover up windows. The last thing that you want to do is have to remove a plant a few years down the road because it grew too big. Overgrown plants may also cover up landscape lighting, water spickets, utilities or house numbers. Any situation where plants over take the surrounding areas is not a good thing. Use common sense when installing plants and make sure that you know what to install and where to install it.
Landscape drawing tips.
- Landscape drawings should be drawn to scale. Once your basic landscape design is done, go back and include plant material in your drawing. Fill in the areas of your landscape drawing with plants that match the growing area. Keep in mind light and soil requirements as well as other objects that you do not want your plants to interfere with.
- When creating your landscape drawing, always make sure to install your taller plants in the back and your shorter plants in the front. You want to stair step your landscape material so that all of the plants are showcased.
- Use landscape design software to professionally plan out your project.