Entering Great Dixter, below, the household drive.
Tires crunching along the gravel, scent of meadow.
Passing thru the yew hedge into this, above.
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See the landscape design secret?
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No?
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Back your car down the drive, park it on the road, get out, walk up the gravel drive, slowly, and thru the yew hedge.
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Notice the contrast of meadow to clipped lawn? Formal to informal?
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Ha, the secret tool of the worlds most famous landscapes is
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CONTRASTING FORMAL & INFORMAL GARDEN ROOMS.
Did you think this gravel drive & meadow were 'natural'? Ha,
not one inch of this drive or meadow were unconsidered. TOTALLY DESIGNED.
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TARA TURF was born in this meadow over a decade ago. And the epiphany of what the best landscapes create,
FORMAL GARDEN ROOMS NEXT TO INFORMAL GARDEN ROOMS..
CONTRAST.
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Yes, contrast flower shapes/colors, tree forms, foliage colors/shapes & etc. Knowing,
contrasting FORMAL/INFORMAL is the most important..
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Lucky me, taking the pics at Great Dixter while Christopher Lloyd was alive. Note: In another area of Great Dixter meadow is designed up to, and touching, the house. Ha, remember the Tara Rule of Just Let It Touch?Oh, meadows have been sustainable-organic-eco-low maintenance-beautiful since before language was invented.