Monday, August 27, 2012

How To Get This Landscape: Break Rules

Want this landscape in a year?  Skip directions about spacing, plant in fall &
 
prepare the soil with amendments.  Most importantly, (do you already know?), mound the soil.
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Life is short don't space your plants following what the books/tags say.
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Garden & Be Well,      XO Tara
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Exceptions abound, but for this garden (& a zillion others)  it WILL work.
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Pic saved without credit.  My apologies. 

4 comments:

Lori Buff said...

I'm seriously feeling the spacing issues in my woodland garden. I guess that just means I need to get more plants.

Jules said...

Many year ago my Mother (an artist) moved into a new house, no garden just a sea of mud! 12 months later she won best garden in an area of 200,000 people!
Her secret....she mounded and fed the soil and planted everything very close together!
I am a believer!!!!!

Brenda Pruitt said...

I generally don't follow the rules!
Brenda

cindy hattersley design said...

Such good advice and...do not buy the plants in giant containers! Small and healthy is good!