Garden Design Quick Tip - Focal Points - Lines and Frames
Focal points are brilliant tools for bringing your garden ‘into focus’ – focal points add context to a garden. By giving a viewer something distinct to look at, it somehow manages to bring the setting around it – the wider garden – into focus too.
Focal points work best when there is a clear line of sight to them; by clearing the way of any other distractions the viewer’s eye is inexorably drawn to the focal point at ‘the end of the line’. The focal point can be anything – an urn, a bench, a plant, a sculpture, etc but it needs to be distinct enough from its surroundings to hold the attention of the viewer for a while once their gaze reaches it. It’s that ‘pause’ of attention that then allows the focal point’s surroundings to then be thrown into focus too.