Going Green
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e products refers to a group of building industry products used by garden designers and landscape architects and exhibited at trade fairs devoted to these industries. Garden design is the art of designing and creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Landscape products includes walls, fences, paving, gardening tools, outdoor lighting, water features, fountains, garden furniture, garden ornaments, gazebos, garden buildings, pond liners. The skills of combining these products to produce places are known as landscape design and landscape detailing. Most professional garden designers are trained in principles of designing in horticulture, and have an expert knowledge and experience of using plants. Elements of garden design include the layout of hard landscape, such as paths, walls, water features, sitting areas and decking. The most important consideration in garden design is how the garden will be used, followed closely by the desired stylistic genres, and the way how the garden space will connect to the home or other structures in the surrounding areas. Landscape design may be done by the garden owner themselves, or by professionals of varying levels of experience and expertise. Some professional garden designers are also landscape architects. Some people were doing this as their hobby.