Several correct labels can be attached for the garden, below. But that isn't the focus here. Events have conspired recently magnifying differences in a Designed Garden vs. a Plantsman's Garden.
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This garden, below, is both, a Designed Garden & a Plantsman's Garden.
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Decades ago, and for several years, my Cottage Garden was a Designed Garden & a Plantswoman's Garden. I changed. Time changed. Abandoning gardening due to lack of time, not an option. 'Away-away', went the Plantswoman's Garden. Welcome, Designed Garden.
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Is it all gibberish, above? It won't be, for many seconds more.
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How to change the garden, below, into a purely Designed Garden? Remove/replace the perennial borders with flowering shrubs or espalier evergreens or evergreen hedges or a mix of them.
Lovely, above, but not for me, personally, anymore. Adore this mix of Designed Garden/Plantswoman's Garden elsewhere. Accepting the down-time of perennials, their dividing, cutting back, herbaceousness, mulching, manurering, weeding, edging, deadheading, no, not for me. I hunger for a garden with everyday Designed Garden AND flowering beauty. Solution? In place of perennials I use flowering shrubs, bulbs, or evergreen hedges, or evergreen espalier flowering shrubs, sometimes espalier hydrangea too.
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With 2 pics, and their captions, now, you know, the difference between a Designed Garden & a Plantswoman's Garden.
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Which are you? Perhaps a Hybrid?
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Thank you Ben Pentreath for today's pics.
CAN I BE BOTH?
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Agree. It takes an experienced gardener's eye to value the wall more than the perennials.
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