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Which subsidiary Landscape Design rules do you see, below?
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If you had this single garden pic, below, to teach a Garden Design course, what does your hand-out look like? What are its headings?
Pic, above, here.
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Great wisdom, above.
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Choose a pot so wonderful, it never needs planting.
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What else about this pot, above, must be copied in your garden? For every pot, focal point, and piece of garden furniture you consider, ask yourself, "Is this piece so wonderful it will be fought over at my estate sale?"
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Another bit of wisdom from, above?
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A garden designed to look beautiful in winter, will be beautiful all year.
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Best Garden Design book ever written, is titled, The Garden In Winter, by Rosemary Verey.
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How best to site groupings of plantings? Contrast foliage textures, colors, sizes, contrast shapes of plant silhouettes, mix evergreen plantings with deciduous, create architecture of a room/s with ceiling (sky)-walls-floors, include art/function/change thru the seasons, site focal points on axis from main views of the house, plantings must include scent/blooms/fall color/berries, plantings must be deer resistant/drought tolerant/bug-fungus proof and cycle with interest throughout the year.
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This is fun, from a single garden pic we've already started a nice Garden Design course.
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Urn, above, is a delight, in memory at my own stupidity, ahead of epiphany. How do you think I was able to have an empty pot epiphany? Seriously, anyone out there had the Empty Pot Epiphany too? Found a quote this year my mom wrote down, "Genius may have its limitations but stupidity is not handicapped."
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Yes, these bits of Garden Design are this important, for me to repeat, repeat, repeat..... If you don't have The Garden In Winter, plenty of used at good prices with the link.
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Copied a simple historic garden room, in our ca. 1900 home this year, a life moment arrived recently, and beyond measure that garden room, and Nature, tended, in great love, not only a life moment, but the entirety of my life. Why do you want to Garden Design? I know why I do, it's for those moments, knowing another may never come. And that is fine, what has been received already is beyond measure.
3 comments:
Evergreen post I think
ordered the book, next year will be spent looking for pots
karen
I guessed the first two, Tara! Only because your posts about it have left such an impression on me. And the garden in winter point sure needs work in our garden, having gotten carried away by spring last year. We're still watching for something to use as plinths to elevate two old flower urns. And fall color is something else we need to work on as all the trees that turn beautifully in the fall are on the far side of our house away from the garden area. I did try to keep in mind your photo from your old house of your garden bench surrounded by beautiful shrubbery and the tree that shed white flowers on the ground around it. Aiming for that effect but years more work ahead before we see that. But that's what I'm trying to copy--you have said to copy, right?
Thank you for today's Garden Design course!
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