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Garden Design Pointers
by Barbara Blossom Ashmun
The trouble with being crazy about flowers is that I want to
grow one of everything. This is good for the nursery industry,
but hopeless for a well-designed garden. Those of us who grow
one of everything are called "collectors"--this word is
enunciated with disdain by designers. So here I am, a Dr.
Jekyll and Ms. Hyde of the garden world, a pretend designer
who’s a collector at heart. What to do? The designer in me
was appalled at the hodgepodge garden that the collector was
throwing together. But the collector was equally determined
to grow every new plant on the market. When I’d ask my friends
to please stop me from acquiring yet another rose bush, they’d
snicker with disbelief. It was time to get real and come up
with some strategies. Here’s how I cope:
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Design the front of the border carefully, and put the
collection in the middle.
Plant three, five or seven of the same plant instead of just
one.
A drift of five pink summer phlox has a lot more strength than
one lonely plant. Three lenten roses at the edge of a border
have more impact than a single specimen.
Color scheme.
I can get away with a lot more plant varieties if I keep the
colors limited. I’m refining a border this year by narrowing
down the flower colors to red, yellow and orange. That way I
can add tons of new cultivars, yet tie the diverse elements
together with a strict color scheme.
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Place a focal point to ground things.
When the flowers are so colorful that I get eye strain trying
to track them all, I add a bird bath or a large terracotta pot
to stop the action. Our eyes need a moment to rest on a plain,
colorless surface, before moving on to the next group of
exciting perennials.
Repeat the same shape or color at intervals.
Repetition lends rhythm to a garden. I sprinkle similar, gray-
leaved perennials and shrubs through my island beds (Artemesia
‘Powys Castle,’ Artemesia ‘Huntington,’ Senecio greyii) to
lead the eye gently from island to island. My gray buffers add
calmness, order and a sense of connection between all the
diverse elements.
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