Saturday, January 2, 2010

SUBSIDIARY FOCAL POINTS

Garden Rooms ambush the rule: 1 Focal Point/Area. Each garden room is allowed its own focal point. What about all the stupid little things? Focal point bench, above, softened with plantings in the pot cluster. My broken head collection is used as a Subsidiary Focal Point. Watering can too.
Tucked into the Hydrangea 'Anna Belle', the blue/white egg is hidden from most views.

Ezra, my Gethling, above, tucked into a shady spot. Most people never see Ezra indicating he's a well placed subsidiary focal point.
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Subsidiary Focal Points are delightfully devious to children. They GET the fantasy. Who knew? Gardening fully for yourself is gardening for children too.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara


2 comments:

Brenda Pruitt said...

I learn so very much from you!
Brenda

Vera @ Cozy Little Cabin said...

I was wondering how to incorporate the subsidiaries. . . thanks for the post & especially for the pix!

The little cabin in the woods that we're buying and will SOME day move into (hopefully by end of January) has a fun little surprise you'll appreciate.

Off to the side of one of the garden rooms is the head of a little dalmatian dog looking through the fence INTO the garden area! I intend to leave it exactly where it is as it is PERFECTION & it will be fun to see which of the grandchildren discover it first!