Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Elements of a Garden: What do you see?


Formal with informal.
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Designed garden with controlled woodland.
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Garden rooms flow in contrast to each other.
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Color theme, green-brown-white.
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High density & low density for maximum pollinator habitat.
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Every garden room needs at least 1 cone shape.
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Cone shapes draw eyes to the sky.
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Cone shapes are hard to design, easy to do too many.
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Pair of cone shapes at an entry way expand the invitation.
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Contrasting shades of green,
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Contrasting sizes of foliage.

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Designed for structure 12 months of the year.
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Clipped hedging.
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Axis.  Double axis.
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Paths easy to walk.
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Fencing & gates chosen to flow with the house.  How do I know?  I just do.
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Stone in the paths matches stone elsewhere in the garden and on the home.  How do I know?  I just do.
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What did you see when you looked at this pic?
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Lost provenance on the pic.
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4 comments:

Unknown said...

I love this! I have a green & white garden, so I'm always looking for inspiration. I'm thinking about adding a box hedge in place of an existing gardenia hedge that got burned this winter. I need to get to working on some cones!

Thanks for sharing.

Maureen

Unknown said...

This is a lovely ordered scene. Very calming and reassuring. Especially like the simplicity of green and white.
Again, simply lovely.

Lori Buff said...

I just want to follow that path into the woods.

La Contessa said...

PEE GREEN with envy!