Design your garden for winter, it will be pretty all year.
Spring, roses, hydrangeas, foxgloves & etc. get all the calendar shots, yet the true test remains, winter.
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Rosemary Verey's, The Garden in Winter, is the garden design book you want. Garden design facts are counterintuitive.
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Another counterintuitive garden design rule? Copy. If it's beautiful in another garden it will be beautiful in yours, and original.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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TARA,
ReplyDeleteI recognized this garden immediately!I have been following her BLOG now for a few years!There is that plinth and urn!!!!!!!NEVER FAILS!
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I so agree that winter reveals the bones. It's why I love stone and hardscape and the often ridiculed yews. And a mix of shrubs and trees that drop leaves at different times like a winter striptease and that hold the magic of snow and give shadows in moonlight.
ReplyDeleteGood advice. One sees the 'bones' in winter.
ReplyDeleteI start all my designs with the winter framework then fill in the 'goodies'
Love your new look.
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The bit about copying is certainly counterintuitive, but I'm going to trust you and use it.
ReplyDeleteAnother thumbs up for your new design. You must have formatted it when snow fell.
Thank you Tara for posting this picture of our garden and for featuring my blog here!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and your beloved ones!
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Says it all, too bad many Americans still don't get simple bones, especially more in flyover country!
ReplyDeleteThis white / dark reveals a garden's true strength. In the desert SW, so little white made up for more brown with bright sunlight most days, so green bones perhaps more important.