Ornamental Horticulture

Balance

The balance in landscape design is visual equilibrium of different garden elements. Balance can be created in a garden either formal or informal by grouping the components, structures and plants equally on both sides of the imaginary central axis. It is a striking feature in a formal garden. The exact duplication of what is on right on the left imposes a balance. The balance should be colourwise, texture wise and shape wise. Trees as an avenue on one side will not make a balance. Care should be bestowed to create balance in colour and texture.




In an informal garden, the overall mass or dense of structure should be distributed on both sides of the axis which may be curved or informal. A large mass of yellow and white coloured flowers may be informally balanced on the other side with few flowers of red to create visual balance.

The human psyche is depressed when thoughts are not balanced. The balance created through plants imposes equilibrium in human psyche thus providing instant subconscious tranquility. Paired opposites such as pleasure and pain, bitter and sweet etc. will get naturalized when one is balanced in thought.