hi and welcome back to garden ninja now a number of you online have been asking me questions about
modernist garden design and it's a really good question because it's a design style
that is not often seen here in the uk so rather than just talk about modernist garden design
I thought what better way to show you than to draw one up and give you some top tips along the way
to see if a modernist garden is the one for you so come on let's get cracking
so the key part to modernist garden design is simplicity
and that's not to mean it's basic simplicity is really difficult to get right in the garden
and what modernist gardens tend to do is use asymmetry
they'll be using lots of clean lines and sometimes quite striking materials to draw your focus
modernist garden designs use a very uncluttered approach so we're going to be using a few key
things really well and to scale we want that wow factor plants are used in modernist garden designs
but they tend to be more architectural so you're not really going to see
lots of drifts of wispy like floaty planting and roses and scents and bits and bobs you're going
to see architectural plants or things planted on mass so if you're going to be using grass it may
be one species it's been planted on bulk it's not about little fiddly details it's all about impact
you've also found modernist garden designs that they might borrow
either a view or materials from the buildings that are adjacent to the garden
and pull them in so you may find that say wood or stone links the garden to the house
sometimes the path or the house may intersect into the garden connecting the two
you may find that modernist gardens also use light and water as reflective surfaces to help
throw shadows around the garden and provide a focal point and it's this simplicity that's
really difficult to get right because you have to do it on a grand scale and usually the human
nature and psyche wants to add more and more to things as gardeners we constantly want to put
more into our spaces whereas with modernism it's about restraint and that's a really tricky balance
but in this design i'm just showing you an example of how i've used the proportions
and materials and really stripped back this space so you can see the architectural trees
the architectural succulents the swimming pool the seats the outdoor office and how
it all connects together in a really simple approach i've used a small hedge as a boundary
just to separate off but everything follows those clean lines and you
might be able to spot the asymmetry between the building the path and the swimming pool
so there we have it an example of a modernist design to give you
some food for thought if you think a modernist garden design might be suitable for your space
now i'm not saying everyone is going to have a swimming pool but really it's just a taster of how
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