"The garden must first be prepared in the soul or else it will not flourish."
"Every garden is unique with a multitude of choices in soils, plants and themes. Finding your garden theme is as easy as seeing what brings a smile to your face."
"All gardening is landscape painting."
"Beauty without depth is just decoration."
"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."
"Texture and foliage keep a garden interesting through the season. Flowers are just moments of gratification."
"Design is thinking made visual."
"Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature."
"What is design? A plan for arranging elements in such a way as to best accomplish a particular purpose."
"Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden."
"Design is creation in or alteration of the world to meet the needs and desires of people."
If you struggle to visualise what your garden design will look like when it is finished, or if you don't even know where to start producing a design on paper, then you may benefit from one of the Garden Design programs available to run on your computer.
What design help you need and how much you are prepared to pay are decisions only you can make and therefore we can only offer an overview of what is on offer rather than recommend any specific programs.
There are core features that you tend to find in most of these programs. It is how well they are implemented that distinguishes one program from another. You need to decide which are most important for your needs:
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