Creative Gardenscapes

Residential Gardening & Softscape Specialists

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Landscape Colors

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The Key to Color In Your Garden

Pastels (English style gardens)

  • Soft pink
  • Powder blue
  • Lavender
  • Peach

Brights (colors of a carnival)

  • Racy reds
  • Vibrant orange
  • Magenta
  • Yellow

Complementary colors (high in contrast)

  • Yellow and violet
  • Orange and blue
  • Green and red

Harmonious Colors (gentle on the eye)

  • Blue and violet
  • Orange and red
  • Yellow and orange

Monochromatic color (shade of the same color)

  • Soft pale yellows
  • Bright sunny yellows
  • Deep golden yellows

I love utilizing all the amazing annuals that can be found at the nurseries. There’s nothing like bringing home beautiful flowers and creating a tapestry of art by planting just the right colors and textures in that special and unique garden bed.

 

Amy Selle

President of Creative Gardenscapes, Inc.

MN Landscape Renovations

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Landscape Renovations

We’re all familiar with the phrase “Out with the old and in with the new” Now let’s apply that to landscapes.

The truth of the matter is that plants have a life span much like we do! There comes a time when our once lovely gardens were fresh, vibrant and a pleasure to be around. But as the years go by, many of our plants simply get old and tired.

We receive many calls from folks who scream HELP my MN property is a mess! And that is where we come in.

Here are just some examples of when a garden or entire landscapes needs a renovation.

  • Overgrown – in need of pruning, splitting/transplanting and thinning out
  • Boring – bring in some plants that will add texture and interest
  • Colorless – add spice to your space by planting colorful perennials and annuals
  • Dead shrubs/trees – remove dead shrubs and replace with young and fresh new plants
  • Shapeless – create a beautiful flowing edge to highlight your existing garden beds
  • Weeds – get root of the weeds so tht they can’t continue to choke the life out of your plants
  • Add a garden – create a new space to install incredible new perennials and annuals

Old landscape can add years to the look of your home. It just may be time to revitalize your property by getting rid of unsightly plants and installing young and fresh plant material.

Is it time to reclaim your property?

Let’s create some pizzazz by using the elements of a designed landscape:

  • Texture – the overall visual texture of the plant including the size, shape and foliage.
  • Balance – there a two type of balance 1) Symmetrical and 2) Asymmetrical
  • Function – a cutting garden, a pollinator garden or simply a garden to visually adore
  • Proportion – the perfect size and placement of the garden
  • Seasonal Interest – planting product that has interest from the spring until winter

 

Amy Selle

President of Creative Gardenscapes, Inc.

Minneapolis MN Gardening Services

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Elements of a Quality Softscape Designbeautiful flower planted by a minneapolis gardening services company

Line is one of the most important and useful of all design elements. Everything on a property involves lines. The line created when a lawn ends, next to a sidewalk, driveway, or fence.

There are four different lines (curved, straight, horizontal, and vertical)

Strong lines can draw your eye into the landscape!

  1. Curved lines add interest to pathways.
  2. Straight lines create order.
  3. Horizontal lines gives a sense of stability.
  4. Vertical lines project a feeling of strength and height.

Visual textures invite you to touch

As a professional gardener, we use texture to contrast plants. Changes in texture can be obvious or subtle, depending on the textures of various plants as they relate to one another. We utilize many different types of texture, some examples are: broadleaf, vertical, smooth, frilly, small ground covers, course shrubs, dainty, etc.

We use endless combinations to create contrast, balance, textures, colors and focal points.

Scale, or proportion, is very important when designing a garden. The most eye pleasing gardens are in perfect proportion to the size of the home.
Contrast emphasizes the difference between a plant or an object and its surroundings. Using contrast is the best way to avoid predictability in a garden. Most garden design principles, contrast is good, but too much can be confusing and uncomfortable to the eye.

We create contrast by manipulating various elements such as form, texture, and color.

The colors of flowers can create exciting contrasts. For example, red and green, purple and orange, and yellow and blue represent the highest contrast in color.
Color seduces the eye, evokes mood, and compliments the seasons. Cool blues, purples, and greens soothe, and warm reds, oranges, and yellows enliven.
Single-color schemes enchant with their simplicity. We have fun when it comes to expressing your personality by combining colors that are interesting to you. Whether it be a mass planting of all one color and variety of a plant, or a free for all exciting feel of height, color, texture and mixing of plants.

Accents and focal points serve to make a landscape more interesting.

Often, a single, interest element added to a garden can create a beautiful work of art to enjoy. Focal points, by virtue of their interesting character, deserve attention and should stand out from the rest of the garden. We utilize accents, such as an arbor, a sculpture, or a specimen plant, help create balance in a garden.

Contact Us Today to see how we can transform you garden softscape!

Mаkе thе Most оf Your Outdооr Sрасе Wіth a MN Landscape Gardening Sеrvісе

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Professional Gardening Services

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We customize to your preferences

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Give your MN outdoor space a face lift

If уоur current gаrdеn іѕ аn оvеr run jungle, сrуіng оut for ѕоmе tеndеr lоvіng care then our gardening team wіll know juѕt whаt tо dо and will mаkе ѕurе уоu get whаt уоu wаnt from уоur оutdооr space. They саn trаnѕfоrm a wіld оvеrgrоwn plot into a grоwn uр, modern ѕрасе divided into zоnеѕ and оffеrіng уоu еvеrуthіng you want frоm уоur gаrdеn. Pауіng a Minnesota lаndѕсаре gardener rеаllу саn gіvе you thе сhаnсе nоt only tо gеt thе gаrdеn уоu really wаnt, but аlѕо tо аdd vаluе tо уоur hоmе in case you have plans to eventually sell your home.

Contact Us Today – (612) 279-8056

We service the following MN cities: Maple Grove, Blaine, Plymouth, New Hope, Golden Valley, Minneapolis, Wayzata, Minnetonka, Woodland, Deephaven, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Edina, Eden Prairie and Bloomington.