You take for granted the fact that anything you put together involves processes. Sometimes you are not even conscious that the procedures you are doing consist of your skills no matter how simple they are. What you are putting together is actually being engaged in designing. The simple thing of doing your hair is actually applying designing techniques. The basic factors to get the task done consist of styling, accessories, and skill. Higher elements could build directly or around the essentials. Your success with these standards will largely decide whether or not the task you have done will achieve the ultimate results. As in window boxes, however humble, if the flowers are put together well will have an everlasting impact.

Such is landscaping. If you are on a budget landscaping, learn the basics first. Understand the principles that bring about the discipline of landscaping. These basic building blocks will start off the learning and implementing toward more advanced standards for designing your yards, in this case the front and back. There are five significant factors to consider achieving that picture perfect gardens. The five essentials are color, form, line, scale, and texture. These are the most important elements to consider before embarking on your trip to a beautiful home accentuated by fantastic window boxes. The window boxes can go with some paint that makes the form of the design.

But you don’t have to take them all at once. As you go along you will have a better understanding of what these basic elements mean. Actually you know them already but you just don’t know which to label with what. Let your distinct tastes show in your selection of colors. You can always mix and match or go monochromatic with colors. Remember your window boxes, the beautiful blooms you put in them? They actually have put zest to a very plain window. But your landscaping should reflect the kind of personality you have. The front yards can be a little heavy. People always notice your front yard first. How would you like to be seen?

Take the form is the plants the sizes of their branches and their shapes. Take into consideration the different sizes and forms of the leaves. The patterns that the branches and leaves form. This is the element talked about when you say form. Comparative leaf size in the mean time aids in distinguishing the texture of the plant. When you talk about texture, it simply means the visual substance in landscape design. It is not just about leaves and its coarseness. It is the overall perception of the objects all around. That includes the window boxes and the rest of the window boxes around your house.

When a viewer looks at the landscape the stream of eye movements is governed by how the plants are all put together. This is what you call line element. It is the way people look at the plants how they are grouped together or fit together either vertically or horizontally. Let it be with your window boxes. The window boxes can add some flow into your yard landscape. Knowing and understanding the basic elements of landscape designing can be put to test once you put them into practical use. Keep in mind that in planning a landscape design it is always better to know the underlying principles behind the basic elements.