Land Form	Shrubs
Plants	Climbers
Grouping of Plants	Water
Colour	Sculptural Forms
Trees	Garden Boundaries

Colour

There are perhaps 3 ways of dealing with colour in landscaping.

01. Designing in monotone
02. Observe the laws of nature
03. Treat the colours of plants as if they were colours on palette and paint pictures with them.

Each tree posses its specific colours and tone. You must be able to handle these colours when designing your garden. For example more interlay coloured flowering trees are too strong against light green but they can look right against the background of a gray wall or blue-gray foliage.

A very small amount of strong colour will tell us contrast in a misty atmosphere. To realize this you have to remember the intense brilliance of coloured lights seen in a fog.

No colour in the garden register as a pure colour cord it takes it's value from the surroundings, the lighting and the texture of the surface.

Trees

Trees are both the most important and most permanent of all garden plant material. For this reason, tress long lived and slow to mature should be your first consideration in landscaping and garden designing. Smaller and quicker growing trees are there, yet they never could be a substitute for stature and solidity of the large trees. They are the framework and other trees and accessories. To over come the problem of long time taken to nature, faster growing and short living trees can be used as temporary fillers. But you must make sure that would not be a disturbance to permanent trees.

Some trees naturally are light loving while others are shade bearing. You must allow them to be a light lover or a shade beaver.

In grouping don't try to use more than three species for a composition.

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