Good design can make a small garden feel larger, can make your garden an extension of your home, create comfortable garden rooms, make your garden feel like a private haven and create inviting landscape and garden filled with plants appropriate for small gardens.

Designing to the Ancient Greeks' "golden triangle" and "golden rectangle" whenever possible, designing when every space counts, designing techniques for the small garden, and creating seating areas and privacy.

The project is a single-family residential master plan design which had the following features of small scale design: entrance gardens, courtyards, interior courtyards, patios, enclosed gardens, and small properties.

The Challenges: entire garden may be viewed as a whole, limited space means you will make choices, color choice should be limited, every plant or feature will need to serve a purpose and less is more.

The Advantages: the design is easier when you take in the whole picture at once, it takes fewer plants to make impact, small gardens lend themselves to being enclosed, a small space garden lends itself to personal expression, and easier to maintain.

The Design Techniques for the Featured Plan: scale and proportion, focal points, water, garden rooms, creating privacy and height, pathways, sitting areas, and garden structures.