Use This Concept to Design an Amazing Garden View

You might be thinking, What am I missing? Why does my garden look so … uh… uninteresting? I see you, and I get you. To create an exciting garden view, you need to learn about the concept of layering. Have you thought of your garden that way? That's how I see it. 

Your garden view is your stage

As a lover of all visual arts, I appreciate theatre staging a lot.

First, you see the stage curtains and feel the anticipation and excitement to look forward to the play starting. Then the curtains open to reveal the stage with a fantastic, peculiar, or otherwise fascinating setting. Doesn't it just grab all your attention?

You begin exploring the scene and feel drawn into it. The set opens new worlds and makes the scene feel so exciting that it takes your breath away.

> > Now, think of your garden view as a theatre stage. < <

When you see the stage, it is fascinating, inspiring, and creates an element of mystery. It is not an empty space with all things pushed to the perimeters of the scenery.

Likewise, your garden view shouldn't be like that - a huge lawn in the middle and flowerbeds along the site's borderlines. 

You can use my theatre stage concept when creating your inspiring garden view. Think of your room or terrace as a theatre stand. The curtains, or if you have no curtains, the window frames or pergola, act as the theatre's stage curtains. They make your room or outdoor living area perfect and frame the scenery in front of it.

Designing a view begins with a garden layout

To create a fascinating, intriguing garden view, use all the space you have boldly. That said, you need to divide your garden layout into different zones. Or at least think of the garden view as zones when you design it. 

Those essential zones of your garden view are:

• front, 
• middle, and 
• back

It's as simple as that!

There should be most of the details in the front, some space, structures in the middle, and a view of the surrounding landscape, buildings, or higher structures at the garden's back. Think of those areas as separate zones - front, middle, and back. They create the desired perspective - an intriguing scene that has a hint of mystery to it.

Where to place a focal point?

A good view has a focal point that attracts the eye and gives it a fixed point to rest. Where do you want to pay special attention to in your garden view? 

Choose one of the previously mentioned three zones, and add there:

• a sculpture, 
• reflecting ball, 
• natural stone, 
• a beautiful bench, 
• a shaped pot 
• or an ornate little tree

You can place your focal point, for example, among vegetation in a planting area. Plants frame it beautifully, and the focal point highlights the planting combination around it. Win-win. 

Time to take action:

There you have it! I have shared with you my concept of thinking of your garden as a theatre stage with a front, back, and middle. Now you know the essential layers to start creating an impressive garden view! 

It's time to take some action.

Now look carefully and identify which things in the view you think are in the foreground, middle ground, and back? 

>> Identify and enhance those areas. <<

If you need some inspiration for lines, elements, structures, materials, and plants, take my Garden Style Quiz. You get a guide to support you on your way to an inspiring, layered garden view with a great perspective.