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Its almost the time of year to dust off the work gloves and dig in to your spring garden planting and landscape designing. I perused the web for some great landscape design ideas and came across the following articles. They each offer something unique, from utilizing layers to creating welcoming walkways to your garden bench to hardscaping.

8 Ways to Fashion an Alluring Backyard Destination
Create a pleasing sense of place in the landscape for a backyard or patio that enlivens the senses

How to Create a Successful Hardscape
Landscape designers offer tips on creating and installing a successful hardscape design.

Landscape Design Styles
Get ideas for the most popular landscape styles and themes

30 Landscape Design Ideas Shaping Up Your Summer Dream Home
Landscape design originally combines creativity and nature, with results that dazzle the mind and push the limits of aesthetics further.

And dont forget! Custom fire pits are always a solid addition to any garden or patio experience. And be sure to check out our sister company PatioOutfitters.net for all of your landscape design needs.

In the vein of continuing with the bizarre and whacky....or in this case, cool as hell, Warming Trends presents "5 Amazing Water Features in Landscape Design." Now, just to be clear, we may be blurring the line in terms of what you may consider landscape design as some of these water features are man made natural wonders created from imagination and natural surroundings, others are fountains and pools that live in urban landscapes. The point is, that these are cool designs and inspiring for landscape architects as well as onlookers. Here are 5 of our favorites:

1) The headquarters entrance of Swarovski Crystal in Wattens, Austria.
Daniel Swarovski, born into a glass-cutting family in Bohemia, attended Vienna’s First Electrical Exhibition when he was 21 and dreamed of creating a machine that used electricity to automatically cut crystals. Swarovski patented an electric-powered machine in 1892, to precisely cut glass into multifaceted crystals. This fountain now sits at the entrance to the crystal cutting plant.




2) Crown Fountain in Chicago, Illinois.
This fountain was named in honor of Chicago’s Crown family, and was designed by Jaume Plensa, a Catalan conceptual artist. Being a Chicago native (technically only lived there the first three years of my life), this is a Chicago landmark and also offers a relief from the hot Chicago summers for millions of children and adults located right in the heart of downtowns Lakeshore Drive neighborhood near Millennium Park. If you havent visited this fountain before, the faces on the facade of the structure change every time the fountain is emptied and faces blink, make strange expressions and then ultimately empty their mouths with a stream of water it has filled itself back up.



3) Children’s Fountain by Tom Corbin in Kansas City, Missouri.
A little known fact is that Kansas City, as famous as it is for its bar-b-que, boasts the second most amount of fountains for any city in the world next to Rome in Italy. How about that? If you ever get to visit Kansas City, make sure to hit up the Plaza area where you will see several varieties of these amazing fountains on display.


4) Hydraulophone Fountain
Here you see the Ontario Science Centre hydraulophone flute with 45 finger holes. A hydraulophone is a fountain that can be played as an instrument like a woodwind instrument, using water rather than air. Hydraulophones have multiple “mouths,” or holes, so that the player can put fingers into specific mouths in order to play chords, while independently manipulating each finger for individual control of the notes in a chord. Here a skilled hydraulist demonstrates proper hydraulophone technique.



5) The Fountain Show at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada.
If youve ever been to Las Vegas, you know that everything is larger than life and extraordinary beyond normality. Therefore, you will also know that a must see is the nightly Fountain Show sitting right on the strip right outside of the Bellagio. This choreographed exposition is tantalizing and hypnotizing all at the same time. And there is no better way to express how this show works, than by actually seeing it with your own two eyes (or one depending on your vision capabilities). So here ya go, for you to see:



Now we here at Warming Trends realize that this blog states nothing about custom outdoor fire pits, which is what we do, but what we do know, is that fire and water DO mix in landscape design if achieved correctly. There is nothing better than a water and fire feature that balances out a landscape design plan.


Two natural elements, fire and water, dont compete for attention in landscape design, but rather add a sense of balance and serenity to outdoor living spaces. So if you are into that sort of thing, check us out online or call us today and well be happy to help you with your landscape design plans including fire and water. 1-877-566-5255.

Sources:
http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/worlds-most-bizarre-and-intriguing-water-fountains/art

http://www.travelingwiththejones.com/2010/09/30/destination-discovery-the-swarovski-crystal-worlds-wattens-austria/

Landscape Design in Auckland

Lately I have been aware of how landscaping a home garden entails a very careful balancing act between imposing your own ideas, and doing what the client wants. All the while making sure that the garden suits the environment.

Alstroemeria in the Baynesfield Gardens

I have been working on a garden for a very sweet elderly lady, and it has truly been a pleasure adding a fresh touch to her garden. The garden itself is well established, albeit in a style that is a little outdated (I hesitate to use that word because I believe if a garden is well designed it should never really become outdated) and also relatively thirsty.

Normally in a situation like this, I would try to steer the client towards making some quite significant changes. But in this case, having weighed up the clients tastes and preferences, I didnt believe that much change was required at all.

She already loves her garden.  Thats exactly what I strive to achieve when I create a garden. So, why fix what isnt broken?

People become very confused while choosing how to decorate the Interior and the Exteriors. Numerous great Ideas for landscaping the yards from your house are available in the internet. There must be a particular sense of tranquility experienced in a place when we try to unite the Design theme flowing in between the Interior and Exterior. You can also Design the Landscape present around your house by using the following tips:

How about making the best features to stand out? You may think about what is the best of the architectural feature present in your house, and then make it stand out. You can repeat its shape or color, clear the space around it or surround it with plants or flowers that do not distract from your homes natural art or beauty.
You may also use various colors which suit the presence. The Color often becomes one of the most obvious and important elements of both house and Landscape Design. If you want the landscaping to add to the visual appeal to your home, then you may also extend the beauty of the home through to your yard. For beige, gray or white homes, mix in purple or even in the soft yellow plants or flowers into the natural Landscape Design. The use of the bold colors like that of the reds, whites and bright yellows are of great use for the homes that already have colors that stand out. The reflection of the architecture and style is also very important. Use the architecture and style of the house for the inspiration. Colors in the orchard provides nice and attractive appearance to your house. 1 to 2 colors in the orchard can give extra look to your garden. I have observed that many professionals are using more than 2 colors. But in my viewpoint, two colors are enough to make your garden perfect.

The Victorian styles look great with boxwood hedges. You may also end up in making a traditional colonial style home decor will go fantastic with the open lawns. Cottages might go well with lush plantings and curvy paths. Contemporary homes may feature modern and most possibly geometric Designs in the Landscape. Also, if you want to give a wild look to your garden then use Exterior stones. Exterior stones can add a little more wild look to your garden.

In the end of this article, I would like to say that always think for a natural look. This will create an excitement and a luxuries look, which no artificial plants can do that.

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A Landscape is an outdoor space on a big property or around your home or office. A Landscape provides a beautiful touch to the building it surrounds and gives you a place to sit and have some relief. Design a Landscape mainly focuses on the integrated master Landscape planning of a property. A Landscape made a property with something to have a stylish look or a boundary with many plants and flowers and even a pool. Depend of our likeness to have include a pool in a garden we can Design the Landscape n such a way with Design the Landscape elements. A specific Landscape Design includes Designing a garden and Designing the Landscape elements. The Designing of garden includes the space to set for a garden, plants included with in the garden, construct a pool or a water reservoir as you need etc. the Designing of a Landscape depends the practical, aesthetic, horticultural, and environmental sustainability components. Once you decide to create a Landscape around your home outdoor you can approach a landscaping Designer to get a perfectly Designed Landscape within the desired budget level.
A Landscape garden Designer can provide helpful tips on plant selection and maintenance of plants and other Landscape elements in a Landscape garden. A perfectly Designed Landscape could help you to make your outdoor space to into a natural haven of beauty and tranquility. To Design a natural Landscape garden help you in reducing plant maintenance that you can simply select plants with your requirements and suits the conditions in your yard. So there is no need to take care of maintaining and fertilizing the plants. Often a natural Landscape Design have to go with some constraints like in a natural Landscape garden there should have to follow some rules in choosing plants, other Landscape elements including shrubs, lawns, groundcovers, perennials, annuals, fruits and vegetables etc. A Landscape frames a house that it greatly affects the livability of a house. By creating outdoor Landscape garden your home will get an increased livability like a good painting brings some good features and so on.

The outdoor living spaces or the Landscapes create a space at a property to sit and take rest for a long time or else it can be considered as a large lawn for childrens to play, older peoples to walk etc. the inclusion of a pool, a water fall make a Landscape garden looking more aesthetic and a sense of private relaxation. A Landscape garden Designer with his/her creativity Design and construct an artistic, horticultural composition to make a detailed site involvement emphasis from concepts through construction. When Designing a Landscape garden the Landscape elements such as trees, large shrubs etc have a great role in providing farming, shade and for screening. The smaller plants in verity color and shape helps to increase the beauty of the visual open spaces. Landscaping provides a great deal of personal satisfaction from bringing together all of the separate elements of a Landscape to create a beautiful garden.
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