Part 1: Garden design techniques

2. Movement

Arrows are drawn on a garden design to indicate how people will move around the space.

Amber Crowley / public domain

Movement is a term used to describe how people want to move around the space you design. A good design will have ‘flow’ which means that when you are in the garden you will feel a desire to move from one area to another.

So what features of a garden could make you want to move around a space? You will notice that many of the ideas on the following pages overlap and work together and that they all create movement.