Friday, October 29, 2010

NYTimes & Anne Raver: Backwards Design

30 years with a beautiful flower garden, Page Dickey, finally creates a fabulous Landscape Design. "We need an overall plan: more green architecture & less plants.", she says. How? "The first step is to replace perennials with shrubs & ground covers."Page has arrived. ATONEMENT.
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Anne Raver, yesterday's NYTimes, knew to lead her delicious garden column with these facts. It's human nature to garden backwards. Flowers are seductive.
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Magazines & nurseries pimp flowers.
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PUPPET BARBUDA is miffed her industry, Landscape Design, is tainted with the Flower Pimp industry.
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How many flowers do you see, above, in my conservatory?
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Poppets, did you see the pic of Page Dickey? I want to look like her when I'm 70, sexy gorgeous !!
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5 comments:

  1. Desert DwellerOctober 29, 2010 at 10:31 AM

    Ms Barbuda...you made me so happy with this flower pimping vs. green spatial definition post, that I could break dance! But I won't...

    4-5 yrs ago, PA horticulturist Rick Darke gave a great talk including this topic to a stunned crowd in Fanta Se...perennial-obsessed and desert-phobic Fanta Se...or is it Santa Fake? He said, "design a garden to look great in black and white, without depending on flower color", and "work with your incredible light and shadows, which is surprisingly lacking."

    Yowza!

    RIGHT ON! I am passing this one, on big time.

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  2. JudyOctober 29, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    I have to agree 100% with your blog today. Notice the wonderful Botanical gardens?? They are all about shrubs and ground covers..and hardscape. Flowers are icing..nice, but not needed when the cake is perfect already.

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  3. LydiaOctober 29, 2010 at 8:45 PM

    The conservatory is MAGICAL!

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  4. the gardener's cottageOctober 29, 2010 at 10:37 PM

    hi tara,

    flower pimps! omg priceless. this one goes in the permanent file.

    ~janet

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  5. AnonymousOctober 30, 2010 at 12:13 AM

    Tara, you are so right. STRUCTURE is everything in a garden. I just finished posting about using my camellias as evergreen 'walls'in my garden.
    I'm with you on the annuals, except the ones that self seed. They are always welcome.
    xsxs

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