The birds singing, a bubbling fountain, apple blossoms crumbling in the wind, the aroma of fragrant tobacco on a summer evening. All the diversity of the world we perceive through the senses. Psychologists distinguish four channels of perception and claim that one of them is the leading one for a person. Visuals, kinesthetics, audios, digitals – you must have heard these designations. How knowing your own leading channel will help you plan your dream garden?
It is, without a doubt, a good way of creating proper ambiance in the garden that will be more suitable especially for you.
Garden for visuals
Visuals perceive the world through their eyes. Through the whole variety of images, colors, and lines. For them, the outside world is like a picture. And a garden picture is an ideal option.
Variety of species
Provide visual diversity in the garden. Already at the planning stage, think about which view will open from each observation point. Avoid monotony – let the picture change as you move. From the open space of the lawn, the gaze moves to the compartments of shrubs; a single tree stands out against the background of dense thickets; the garden acts as a rhythmic pattern of trunks. Break horizontals with vertical accents, use massive buildings and plantings as a background for graphic elements. The terrain is a great helper. If there are no natural differences in the area, form artificial walls, hills, volume flower rows.
Viewports
The garden picture needs a frame. A great technique for highlighting visual images is the creation of scenes and viewports. For this purpose, you can use both artificial structures – stone arches, pergolas, gaps in the fence, garden sculpture – and plant design. By planting groups of shrubs on the sides of open space, you literally frame it. If you use plants at different distances, as if protruding one after another, you will increase the depth of space and emphasize the perspective.
Scale contrast
Use contrast – not only openness and closeness but also scale. The massiveness of bulk plants is emphasized by small specimens in their roots. Combine plants with large leaves and finely chopped foliage. Combine deciduous and coniferous in one composition. Beautiful foliage and its diverse form not only gives the garden an ornament but also creates a beautiful moving pattern of light spots, shadows and through gaps – a real visual pleasure.
Interesting color combinations
Actively use natural multicolor. Expand the color palette: in addition to flowering plants, plant species with colored, spotty foliage. Create interesting and unusual color combinations and contrast effects, or, on the contrary, a subtle interaction of related shades. Monochrome garden or colorful meadow, graphic grove, or flowerbed in the colors of your favorite painting.
Expressive seasonal changes
Consider seasonal transformations – nothing will please the visual like a constantly changing picture of the surrounding space. When every day the colors and lines are already a little different. Nature shows this very brightly. Plant plants expressively changing their color, combine flowering species of different seasons, which will create a wave of flowering. Use plants with beautiful fruits and a long decorative effect. And be sure that the garden is expressive in the winter.
Garden for audios
For them, the world is made from sounds of different heights, timbres, saturations. Therefore, a harmonious and varied sound atmosphere is especially important for audios.
Natural sounds
Nature itself fills the surrounding space with the rustle of foliage, birdsong and buzzing insects. We can expand and make fuller use of the range of natural sounds by attracting birds and pollinating insects to the garden. Hang bird feeders for birds – it’s best to do this already in the autumn and winter. Set nests. So you can further adjust the species composition because different birds need different conditions and sizes of the house. For insects, plant melliferous plants.
Running water
Place a mobile water source on the yard: fountain, stream, cascade. The murmur of water will complement the sound atmosphere, make it more diverse. If your yard has an expressed relief and source of water, you can create it in a natural way. If not, use closed-loop artificial systems, or open ones. Such systems have their own advantage – they can be turned off if necessary.
Kinesthetics feel the world with skin, perceive the diversity of its textures and material properties. And since they interact directly with the environment, movement is especially important to them.
Variety of textures
Provide tactile variety. Let the surrounding space be as saturated as possible with textures. Nature provides excellent tools for this – for example, the various texture of bark and leaves: smooth and fractured, prickly, hard and pubescent. These properties must be combined consciously, choosing a plant assortment. Surfaces and materials also give different sensations.
But this kind of effect can be not only natural, but you can also create it with the decking your yard for example. Wood not only looks luxurious, but it also is very pleasant to touch. To make qualitative and with the taste, you can go here.
The natural environment allows you to use this difference as widely as possible – for example, in paving. The same tile throughout the kinesthetic’s yard would be too boring. Give them the opportunity to walk barefoot and feel the flow of hard stone, loose sand, soft grass – combine different materials in furniture, paving and buildings. In addition, since kinesthetics learns about the world through movement, a variety of routes is important to them. Make the paths winding, and the path of movement around the yard is not the only one.
Fragrances
Smells – an extension of taste and tactile sensations. The space filled with aromas becomes more voluminous and saturated. Plant shrubs and flowers with a bright smell in the garden, and aromatic herbs on the flower row, in containers, and in flower beds.
Garden for digitals
Digital thinks structurally and rationally. For them, the world consists of logical relationships. Logical should be the space around.
Clear structure
Digitalis value orderliness. They will appreciate the advantages and disadvantages, consider various options, take into account all the possibilities. In planning, a clear separation of functions, route optimization, and accurate area calculation will be important.
Everything in its place
They strive to sort things out – both figuratively and in the literal sense. Therefore, it is worth providing storage facilities for everything in the world. For garden tools and locksmith tools, for hoses and watering cans, pots, arches and everything you might need.
Benefit and Functionality
Both layout and equipment must be practical and functional. Not for nothing that digitalis are also sometimes called pragmatists. A practical garden and a garden for growing crops, a garage, a workshop and other useful areas will come in handy.
