11/5/2023 0 Comments Easy positive and negative space( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( July 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. If you limit your turf to a simple, easy to care, positive shaped space you will thank yourself after every mow as well as have a space you can enjoy lingering in.This article possibly contains original research. By thinking about the positive and negative space in the garden, planing your garden becomes easier. Remember any “islands” in the grass, such as trees or flower beds will slow down your mowing. What to do with the negative space left over They could be a simple ground cover, bark mulch, or a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant xeriscape. They can be a grove of trees, a meadow of wildflowers, a planting of ornamental grasses. ![]() If thoughtfully planned, this non-lawn areas can also bring wildlife, such as birds and butterflies into your yard. This makes mowing easier and quicker because you don’t have to stop, back-up and forward over and over again. If we pick a good shape, we can eliminate corners. Not only that but lawn maintenance can be reduced by designing the lawn areas to be one continuous, easy-to-mow area. All much different and potentially more interesting then our monoculture of grass. Parts of your planting area can be a grove of trees, a mixed shrub planting, a sea of ground covers, a meadow, a vegetable garden, a pond even. Not only do we prefer to be in positive shaped spaces, we can also make negative spaces a lot more interesting by adding vertical interest to your planting beds that you can’t add to your lawn area. Positive spaces are almost always preferred by people for lingering…” – 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick You might object, then our planting area will be an odd shaped negative space! That’s OK as How about we flip the process around and make one big cookie out of our pile of dough?īy that I mean pick a positive shape for our lawn area and leave what is left (the negative space) as planting areas. Can you imagine taking care of turf shaped like this? Photo by Landscape Design Advisor One big cookie This image could gives a gardener nightmares. Both of which become more work when planting beds and patios are cut out of it. This odd shaped grass is not the most aesthetically pleasing shape. ![]() Photo by goosmurf How to avoid a lot of wasted “dough” The left over scraps of dough is the negative space. The cookies that are cut out from the dough is the positive space. Think of a rolled-out sheet of cookie dough. ![]() James’s Park, Westminster, London via photopin (license) No not that kind of negative! photo credit: Eeyore Spots a Tasty Globe Thistle, St. No not negative like Winnie the Pooh’s less then enthusiastic friend Eeyore, but instead what is left behind when the positive shapes are removed. This left behind shape is considered the negative space. One thing that is not usually considered is what is the shape of the turf that is left behind? While the beds we are making are made of shapes. photo credit: Summer Symetry via photopin (license) What are we left with? When our lawns get cut up by a bunch of positive spaced planting beds, patios, or other landscape features what we are left behind is a lot of negative space. The flower beds might be curvy while a vegetable garden may be a rectangle. We make these beds out of different shapes. Then we start adding more beds to create more privacy and perhaps grow some of our favorite plants and flowers. Adding to a garden by cutting out the space from the grass. So we add beds of curving shapes in which we place shrubs to block the view of a neighbor or help to define our property lines. We may have noticed most garden beds are shaped from curved lines. They may be square, circles or rectangles. We are in essence cutting out of our grass, different spaces in different shapes. From this we usually subtract out of that a walk from the driveway to the front door and rectangular patio off the back door. Most yards usually start with a default material of grass. How does the typical garden layout start? To do this, let’s consider the use of positive and negative space in garden. ![]() We can do this by altering it’s shape and size. I’ve written about eliminating the lawn before ( Tyranny of the turf), but maybe you just want to make it a little less of a burden.
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