It also adds harmony to any planting design. Fine textures should never flow directly into coarse textures. There should be a medium transition area. The same goes for color. There should be a blending of colors from light to dark.
Balance is an equalizer of planting or any other composition.
The viewer should feel that the overall design has the proper visual harmony. Balance comprehensively encapsulates all the design elements previously discussed and pulls the whole composition together. Designing landscapes is similar to an artist creating a painting or a piece of sculpture. Artists utilize all the design principles in their work and their artistic skill is judged on how they manipulate these principles.