Show #05/7505. A Beautiful Azalea Garden Three Years After Planting

Tips For Designing Walkways

The walkways are what guide the viewer through the garden and dictate what they're going to be able to see in the garden. So first, and he knows this from experience, try to follow the topography - always. Once you follow the topography, you'll have more gentle level walkways. But this hillside was so hilly Jim knew it was going to be a difficult task to do that. How do we complete those walkways? Well, he knew to get a gentle slope, they were going to have to bring in a tremendous amount of fill dirt. Jim likes to use a lot of curves. Curvilinear design guides you through and you feel it's almost like a stream. It has movement like a stream meandering through a valley. You just can picture the water moving through there. As the walks are moving you, they had to create a lot of interest. So all of the walks at Gibbs Gardens are designed to create interest and they also break up the spaces.