Sunday, June 10, 2012

Garden Path

Gravel leads to gray flagstone.  Curve invites you 'round, mystery.
Entry anchored with a pot/boxwood, repetition of plantings on both sides.  Curve has narrative.  Called the eye-sweet line.
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A macro-path formula, works every time with the magic of being unique each time.
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Of course you must deal with the micro-path details.  Resist the urge to go  beyond simplicity.
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Garden & Be Well,     XO Tara
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More of Jeri Farmer's delightful garden.  Can you imagine zero mulch, evergreen groundcovers, daffodils, a sasanqua, a camellia japonica, dwarf forsythia.....  With Jery's color combination I can see black-white-pink pansies.  This path is gorgeous all year.
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Too often gravel & stone choices are horrendous.  Imagine a brown crab orchard with pops of  orange.

8 comments:

Jojo said...

Leaves one wondering what we will see around the corner.

Nita Stacy said...

Love the hydrangeas along the curving path. Yes, so pretty. Love that big pot too.

Linda@ Lime in the Coconut said...

Note to self: RESIST the urge to go beyond simplicity...RESIST the urge......

Anonymous said...

Love that curving path. Love the color of stone and gravel.

This will be a gorgeous garden! Bravo!!!

Desert Dweller said...

Simplicity on paths and their edges...exactly. But confused on the pine straw...is that not a mulch? It really works in that space, both I would think culturally and visually, esp. where its' absence defines the path.

Anonymous said...

I love the pine needle mulch. It's what I grew up with in Tidewater Virginia.

Tara Dillard said...

Pine litter needed until groundcovers fill in.

Technically it should be leaf litter since it's mostly hardwood canopy.

You know, David, that native 'thang'.

XO T

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