Grow your skills: Introducing our garden design series

Editor’s Note:In this series on the principles of landscape design, we will be focusing on correcting common design flaws while accounting for east Idaho’s climate. Each week until February, we will take a detailed look at a couple of principles and how you can apply them to your property, elevating its aesthetic.

As we move into the winter and the plants go dormant, so too do some of our ideas on what to write about for you east Idaho gardeners. But there is plenty to think and plan for regarding our yards and gardens even when the snow and winds start blowing. For the next eight weeks we are going to discuss the principles of good design, applied to our local yards and garden conditions.

Recently, I was reminded how a small physical adjustment will change the aesthetics of the whole. M