When considering garden landscaping you need to know that physically, gardens must have boundaries although they can reach to the limits of the universe in your imagination. Inspirational landscaping ideas come from the sun, wind, materials, sculpture and the conservation movement. It is often necessary to look backwards before moving forwards.
The orbital movement of the earth is able to predict the travel of a shadow across the face of a sundial. Placing a sundial in your garden can help stimulate a child’s interest in life and science. A sundial must be designed for an exact location. Sundials were originally placed on church towers because time was a ‘sacred thing’.
One can be led into a garden landscaping design by the weather. You should carefully observe how the light travels, where the wind comes from or how and where the rainfall collects in your garden. This careful observation will yield information that is interesting and useful for your landscaping ideas. Wind vanes, like sundials give perspective on the planet. Gardeners must be weather wise and are usually avid collectors of weather lore. Farmers and gardeners used weathervanes as meteorological instruments which enabled them to see which way the wind was blowing. In this way they were able to predict if it was going to rain.
In garden landscaping you need to think about water. All life needs water and so do our gardens. Water is the Earth’s most valuable asset, so valuable in fact, that we have searched for water on Mars and the Moon. When using landscaping ideas with water, the most appealing way is to plan for a design with no water loss. Water should be retained as much as possible within the garden boundary. Modern gardeners either turn on the tap or wait for the rain. Rain water is much better than tap water. Fountains are great for hot sunny days and a wonderful way of celebrating water in gardens.