Beauty without flowers

Apart from enhancing aesthetics, patterns in the landscape can meet functional needs like directing movements or defining special-use areas within the garden.

The notion that garden beauty is about flowers is widespread but flawed. In fact, flower colour plays just about the same role as paint does in a room: highlighting what is already good and enhancing the mood within finished garden rooms.

The visual quality of a garden is a result of many other factors, including form, balance and proportions.