Tips for Balancing Plants in Landscape Design

Follow these tips for balancing plants in your landscape design:

Tip 1: Consider Branching Density

Tip 2: Use Color Weight to Your Advantage

Tip 3: Balance Heights with Groupings

Dense, leafy plants tend to draw the eye more than sparse or bare-branched plants.
To balance group sparse plants together to create a visual weight equivalent to dense plants.
And also place dense plants as focal points in areas where you want to draw attention.

Dark-coloured plants naturally appear "heavier" than light-coloured ones.
To maintain balance, pair darker foliage with a larger quantity of lighter plants to even out the visual weight.
And use dark-coloured plants sparingly to emphasize certain parts of the landscape.

A single tall tree can be balanced by grouping smaller shrubs of similar colour and density.
Combine 3–5 smaller plants to counterbalance one tall plant.
Maintain consistency in branching density and foliage shade to harmonize the overall look.

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P.S.I have detailed all these in-depth on the landscape in chapter 11 of our Residence Design eBook