Choose the wall that gets the most sun and hang planters with herbs along the whole height of it, using hooks or a wall rack. This small garden idea with a herb garden is by Ikea. Got it? Enjoy a tour of gardens that all say "modern" in one way or another.If you have a small walled garden, use the walls! You basically automatically have extra space, it's just vertical. This is not the space for rusted garden furniture or rocking chairs turned into planters.Cottage gardens with fussy plants like roses do not go in modern landscape.Use natural, local materials: Wood, stone, native plants.Colors in furnishings, walls, and plants are bold and striking or monochrome.
Lines of the garden are clean and often echo those of the structure.Continuity is good: Repeating colors, textures, materials, and shapes.Gardens complement and enhance the home's architectural design.If it wasn't Ranch, Colonial, or Victorian but it was new, then it was contemporary.įeatures in a modern landscape design vary, but here's what they are and are not: Nobody was aware of or referenced the then-current times as mid-century. To make things even more complicated, back in the 1950s to 1970s, mid-century modern design was referred to as "contemporary".
Sometimes, modern and contemporary design are confused. Notable 20th-century landscape architects and designers like Garrett Eckbo, Lawrence Halprin, and Thomas Church paved the path for today's modern or forward-thinking designers. Later, things became more organized into geometric sections with polymorphic shapes. Modern landscape design is an expansion and refinement of mid-century modern or Modernist garden design, hearkening back to the 1950s or earlier when residential architecture reflected optimism and rooflines exuberantly jutted toward space.
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