How to find your design style – Show Notes

What is your design style?

Today’s links: ely.how/episode42

• DIY landscape design basics for your yard
• Find ideas on Pinterest
• Find ideas on Houzz
• Today’s Plant: Serviceberry

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• Get 1-1 help with Ben
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How to find a style for your DIY landscape design

• Style
• Function
• My style

First steps for landscape design ideas

• What you need
• what you like

How to find inspiration for your style

• Pinterest
• Houzz

Styles for your landscape

• Formal / Classical / Symmetrical
• Modern / Angular / Arc & tangent / Geometric
• Informal / Curvilinear / Naturalistic

How to figure out what you like

• Do you like:
  • Neat and clean
  • Loose and comfortable
  • Roomy
  • Cozy
  • Iconic
  • Reminiscent
  • Traditional
  • Cultural
• High maintenance, low maintenance
  • Formal designs – more trimming, edging

Understanding function

• Playspace
• Entertainment
• Decorative
• Relaxation
• Food
• Scenery
• Wildlife
• Just space for filler

My landscape design preference

• Styles
  • Curvilinear, informal, with occasional formality
  • Naturalistic design
  • Environmentally influenced
• Functions
  • Family entertainment
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Wildlife

Today’s favorite plant

Serviceberry – Amelanchier canadensis

• Small tree / shrub
• USDA zone 4-8
• 25-30ft at maturity
• Tolerates wide range of soil
• Moderate moisture
• White blossoms April – May
• Fruit June
• Beautiful orange fall color
• Susceptible to some apple, rose diseases
• Protect from deer and rabbits when young