Green Textures

1 Feb 2011 - Landscaping is in fashion. In creating a pleasing garden, the emphasis on the texture of plants is as important as color. Texture refers to the visual appearance of garden elements that includes  the leaf of flowers size, surface condition  and shape. These can either be soft, hard, rough, smooth, fine, shiny or bold and are categorized into fine, medium and bold texture. Plants with small, finely divided and shiny leaves or flowers are in the fine texture category. Plants with big, rough and large leaves or flowers are bold texture plants. Medium textures are in between the fine and bold plants . You can ascertain the texture by just placing the plants next to each other. A pleasant combination of the three would bring about an appealing visual contrast in a garden design. Over-planting any of the three would make the garden look blurry or heavy.