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The Summer Garden for Outdoor Living
Little wonder that modern attitudes towards gardens and what they represent have evolved from traditional views over the last fifty years. Not so long ago, the garden was ‘an area’ intended to be enjoyed, easy to maintain, yet full of variety and ideally providing colour throughout the year. In fact apart from children running around playing, mowing the lawn and deciding how and when best to prune the fruit trees, gardens were considered more in visual terms, in other words within the garden space, form took precedent over any garden activity. This traditional perspective has been dramatically overtaken partly because of the vast array of new garden products featuring innovative technologies but mainly by the dynamic changes in modern living and working habits.
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Design Ideas for Garden Walls and Steps
The basic principle of good garden design is space. Your garden is a space designed for relaxing in – so good garden design involves good use of space. One of the best ways to make sense, and therefore good use, of the space in your back garden, is by introducing garden walls, steps and patio areas into the equation.
As soon as you bring walls and steps into your garden, you start to define specific areas in terms of their use. For example: if you have a patio area, which ends in a garden wall and some steps up to your lawn and flower beds, then you have very clearly signalled the intention you have for the different parts of your outside space. The walls make that intent clear in a natural way.
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