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Making your own house land scaping  is a great mental satisfaction. So it is encouraged  to do-it-yourself . To learn the basic concepts and techniques employed by professional designers you may click and look the  following: -

1.Using Color Schemes
2.Plant Form and Texture
3.Focal Points, Scale and Line

Not only will these concepts serve as building blocks for improving the look of your own yard, but studying them will also generate numerous landscape design ideas for you. By browsing the photos  in the resources below will provide access to landscape design ideas that you can apply immediately; but, in addition to that, digesting the explanations that accompany the photos will open up a whole new window for you into the world of designing.

Landscape Design Ideas:-> Landscape  Color Schemes

You may browse these photos showing landscape color schemes in action! See examples illustrating such concepts as:

* Contrast in color
* “Warm” colors
* “Cool” colors

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*Color Theory
*Flower Pictures Organized by Color
*Pictures of Flowering Shrubs

Landscape Design Ideas:-
You may wonder what seemingly abstract terms like “form” and “texture” have to do with improving the look of your yard. You may object that you’re not painting a masterpiece, after all; you’re just putting plants in the ground. Yet it is not coincidental that our subject shares some terminology with the world of art. The backyard is your canvas; your understanding of concepts such as form and texture will determine the beauty of the resulting picture.

Flowers may be sufficient to achieve the color schemes you desire, but when it comes to form and texture, you’ll find the need for other allies, such as ornamental grasses, as well as trees and shrubs with interesting branching patterns and foliage.

View photos: Plant Form and Texture

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*Ornamental Grass
*Foliage Plants

Landscape Design Ideas:
Designers create focal points to direct the eye to key areas in the yard. Scale and line are other concepts that deal with eye movement; we see examples of “line” at work all the time, in the form of hedges and fences. Learn about these tried-and-true landscape design ideas, concepts that serve as the cornerstones of the world’s picture-perfect gardens.

You may click and view the photos:-> Focal Points, Scale and Line

You may click and view the  Related resources:
*Fence Pictures
*Hedges

Sources: http://landscaping.about.com/od/landscapedesignideas/a/landscape_photo.htm

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