Houston Texas Garden

Posted under Home and Garden on Thursday, 29 October 2009 by admin

We were welcomed by the owner of a house in Houston, we asked a variety of Gardening and Landscaping provides design, which would complement and expand contacted the Mediterranean theme of his house in the countryside. This house was situated on a large plot of several acres in a remote area near Memorial Drive at Loop 610. The characteristic of a symmetrical construction, the linear representation, although the two stories, and our client wanted a landscape and garden design, these principles of self-regularity and thin linear motion would follow.
Creating a theme of the Mediterranean in Houston, Texas, gardening and landscaping is a bit 'more complex, which might seem at face value. The south coast of Europe, especially Italy and Greece-mountanous is an area where houses and gardens are built on steep angles and sharp vertical rise. Gardens and fields are often built in terraces that climb the mountains because of the limited range of plants and the rough, rocky terrain. Limestone is the type of rock in Italy and Greece and has developed in this part of the world an icon of our collective consciousness. Houses and gardens of the Mediterranean are shaped historically famous for its white stucco walls, green olives and carefully in a densely rugged limestone.
The challenge was put into an essentially three-dimensional landscape style and the transfer of a property in Houston. As we all know, this part of Texas is very flat, so that a hill is the garden of the question, literally. However, with a mix of symmetric and linear models, along with some innovative materials, garden, we were able to mimic some aspects of EU coastal terrain.
The key was to a combination of rounded shapes and linear structures in the garden several elements that we have developed. French and Italian gardens, the emphasis on order and symmetry, and both tend to use a right angle to create form. We emphasize a variety of plants at low planting around the house and back yard pool on the walls and corners. Then three types of landscape in a similar keynote Houston has created a Mediterranean garden.
The first of these forms was a knot garden centered on the front door, directly in front of court house engine. We planted boxwood in three circular rows, similar to the terraces on a hill. Node in the middle of the garden planted Loropatalum we adjourned with a solitary Crinum lily as the nucleus. The purple Loropatalum attracts the eye, and added to the vertical dimension of the lily attracts upwards to the main entrance of the house.
Then move to one side of the house, we have transformed a significant part of the yard in a parterre garden, centered around a large room, the glass of the west wing of the house extended. This garden was established by growth rose sparsely populated, its accessibility to the constant cutting makes an ideal material for the parterre gardens of plants and colorful flowers made their points of view in the neighborhood of Houston. The borders are made garden of box hedges and the highways have been imitated with the help of European limestone gravel, the color of limestone rocks in the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic. Then we have the design completed by dwarf yaupon, a small shrub that has a curious resemblance to clouds along the boundaries of the gravel walkways. This has helped to create the impression that the garden was on a hill near the sea and the clouds rolled over the coast.
One of the most interesting features of this Houston, Texas, is the property of their excellent location. The back of the courtyard adjacent to a 50-foot gorge cut into the earth, a large tributary of Buffalo Bayou. This seemed to us as a destination for the garden, guests can visit after a walk to the west wing of the house to the pool. I encourage you to do this, we planted an alley of crepe myrtles, in the pool all the way back in the woods along the ravine. We then construct a bridge made of blocks of limestone aggregate, which began on parterre garden, which ran alongside the house to the pool, then ran straight through the avenue of trees to the picturesque view of the woods and creek below.

Jeff Halper is passionate for Landscaping and wants to share information about that passion. At Exterior Worlds you can read more about Houston Texas Garden or Landscaping Design