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Hi I am looking for best software which can create easy to make professional looking 3D landscaping and Garden designs. The software should have everything ready to copy paste or insert for making designs. Their should be option to give the size according to our need and use curves and slops.
Also looking for websites which has photos of landscape garden patio designs free download.

Thanks for all who answers.

sure, google's Picasa will do it, it's free and works well, here's the link
http://www.sleekbytes.com/picasa-google. htm
as per landscape designs, here's google's search
http://images.google.it/images?hl=en& ;q=landscape+garden+patio+designs+&b tnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
if it helps please remember me cheers and thanks for the 2 points!

2007-07-21 10:01:30 by wpasha

Step by step pictures of how to design and build an outdoor living space or garden.

We have a sunken hole we want to turn into a 'garden' of some kind. ...the land is very high at the rear of our house so its basically just a big hole in the ground with scrubby grass sides! NOT very pretty - we work from home so expect to have lots of visitors this summer - here are photos - http://myauctionpix.com/membertemplate.p hp?a_id=1321&bg_id=25....it has to stay gravelled as its also drainage for the whole garden/paddock that slopes into it (thats the concrete well on the right ) - under the gravel is drainage pipes - I'd love a paved area for a gazebo & maybe some kind of water feature - maybe also an american style stone BBQ table with seating area etc - we have a TON of stone as you can see so we can build walls and all sorts for nothing - if you have any ideas i would be grateful as i have NO idea what to do with this area? ( btw - the patio will have wooden rails in a few days so that wil be more 'finished' too....thankyou so much - i really need some inspiration !

I would put a retaining wall across the back arch of the gravel area. you can build a shorter wall in front of that to make into planting areas. You can also include the water feature in the center of the retaining wall, maybe just a small feature as you dont have tons of space back there. A greek head on the wall with water coming from it to a small pool down below which can be recycled. A nice flowering tree at each end of the wall to help with retention, beds below the trees. Planters on the gravel surface which can actually be very nice if you keep going smaller and smaller with the stone. You can put a medallion or such in the middle of the gravel area. To the left or the right could be for grilling and the seating area would be centered over the medallion area. I would plant colorful plants for full summer color and allow some to grow over the edge softening the stone. Planters up on the patio and maybe window boxes also. Good Luck

2007-04-08 10:39:55 by celebrityhandbags

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I need some more information about aha gardens , I know these were gardens designed to make the garden look wider and ?bigger but I can''t find a specific photo or picture as an example , who can help me ??

I think you mean a ha-ha, originally called Ha! Ha!s because of the surprise element involved in falling over the wall you can't see into the ditch below, designed to keep the cattle and deer from the house front.
These were originally in use across Italy and France in the seventeenth century, but more for practical reasons than design features. Only in England did they become a status symbol, probably because we are a small country and to make your estate look bigger required a bit more ingenuity. The debate around them in the middle and later eighteenth century is very interesting. I suggest, if you want to see a good example, you visit Stowe (NT) in Buckinghamshire which you ought to visit anyway as it contains features from virtually all the garden designers of the 1800s, Batty Langley, Bridgeman, Kent and 'Capability' Brown. Chatsworth also has a ha-ha, and there is a very nice, small-ish, example at Blickling in Norfolk, I think. Most period gardens have some remnants of the ha-ha. Stowe is the largest, I think. Petworth is one of the most complete of Brown's designs, and Blenheim, of course, is an important site.

Read: Stephen Switzer, one of the first garden writers to make economies of scale possible - running a big estate was expensive.
Humphry Repton, writing at the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth centuries. He was influential, although very few of his designs remain: one of his debating points is, in fact, the ha-ha, which by 1790 was beginning to be more of a problem than a virtue - estates were smaller, money tighter, and there was a return to a desire for the more formal garden, terraces, ballustrades and flower-beds near the house, so a fence would do as well in Repton's mind. The other thing he pointed out was the peculiarity of a garden looking as though it was full of cows, when, if you have pretty plantings near your windows you plainly don't want a lot of cows there as well ...
Brown didn't write much about garden designs. He was a pragmatic and tireless professional who had an idea and wanted to carry it out - some thought to ridiculous levels - moving villages, and so forth, but it's most likely that you'll find good examples of the ha-ha in his designs.

John Claudius Loudon published all Repton's writings in one volume in 1840, available now in the 'Aesthetics and the Picturesque, 1795-1840' series, ed. Gavin Budge (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001). The other large series to look at is 'The English Landscape Garden' (29 volumes at last count), ed. John Dixon Hunt (New York/London: Garland, 1982). Also, have a read of John Dixon Hunt's 'The Figure in the Landscape', which discusses the relationship of painting to European gardens - one reason the ha- ha was liked, because it made your estate look more like the French and Italian paintings so popular in England at the end of the seventeenth century (status again - it meant you'd travelled if you knew what these things looked like).
A comprehensive and useful, but a little opinionated, study of garden design is by Charles Quest-Ritson; 'The English Garden: A Social History' (Penguin, 2003).

Hope this helps, but get out there - it's never the same in a picture!

2006-10-25 04:44:01 by ivanhoe

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we have space to fill with some interesting plants (about 1.5m x 2.5m) by a south facing wall (sunny place, soil quality probably not very good). i'd like to plant some interesting and hardy grasses and shrubs and maybe some climbers. i want to create an interesting feature in our little garden with nice contrasting colours and textures. the plants should ideally be decorative all year round and shouldn't need watering.
can you recommend any plants or a good website that features photos and descriptions or even some ideas how to group the plants to get some nice effects? most websites i've seen give only lists of plants (no good if you don't know them).

any tips will be appreciated!

For climbers, I go for either:
Roses as these can flower for quite a time during the summer.
Passion flower, these come in all different colours and in the autumn have lovely orange fruits [don't eat them!]
Clematis, these too come in all sorts of different flowers and colours.
Put black and/or green bamboo in tubs [ this spreads quite quickly] as an alternative to grasses.
And for a mass of colour all year round why not plant bulbs that flower in the different seasons. Bulbs you can leave in the ground to naturalise, so it's less work for you. Why not add a water feature or a sundial too.

Happy gardening

2008-02-22 11:39:43 by Evut

I love decorating cakes for my kids. I am pretty good at the whole icing piped into star shapes to fill in designs, but for my daughter's birthday she really wants a My Little Pony cake. I found a cute one at
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/phot o/2737091780065837511DdSmUk but I can't figure out how to fill in the pony in the center. I have tried piping in a single line & then smoothing out, but it hasn't ever turned out very well. Is there some other technique that I don't know about? Thank you so much!!

Instead of piping stars all over except the pony, I would flat ice the cake & try to draw the pony with a toothpick & use Wilton paste color & a paint brush to paint the food color inside the lines. Then pipe an outline in the same color over the toothpick lines.

2008-10-16 17:23:52 by Jennifer