Designing your Landscaping

Designing your Landscaping

Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is everything.” Designing your landscape takes; imagination and vision, and of course the right plant material. Moon Valley Nursery has an overwhelming plant selection to create anything you can imagine for your landscape design.

Landscape design has a distinct vocabulary. Many of the terms have deep roots in history, art and politics. So the next time someone says “ha-ha,” to you, is it jovial fun or is it………….? See terms below.

Landscape Architectural Terms:

Allee- Straight path in a garden, often lined with trees

Arcadia-The classical idealized landscape, usually with nymphs and swains. It is the pagan equivalent to Paradise.

Bosque- Small woody area or clump of trees, usually some distance, designed as an ornamental backdrop.

Built environment- The part of the world we live in that wasn’t given to us by nature.

City Beautiful Movement- The belief promulgated in the 1890s that a beautiful and majestic urban environment would create a better society with an improved moral climate.

Conservatory- A decorative greenhouse as an architectural feature in a garden.

Espalier- The sculpture training of a tree or vine, making artificial what is natural.

Ha-ha- A ditch used as a wall or fence between tracts of land that is hidden from view.

Hortus deliciarum- Latin for “garden of delights.

Neo-Classical – The style era between Rococo and the Romantic.

Softscape- The greener parts of the landscape design, requiring more watering, weeding and mowing.

Xeriscape- The use of gravel in place of grass to obviate constant watering.

Zen garden- A particular Japanese garden style, usually found in Zen Buddhist temples, often made from only raked white sand and boulders, creating a “mindscape” meant to aid in meditation.

Moon Valley Nursery has a huge selection of trees, plants, shrubs, perennials, and vines. Everything you can “imagine” we have it.

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