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Introduction – - – - – Perennial Meadows
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Perennial Meadows – Bringing structure, focus and impact to perennial planting schemes.
To generalise, perennial plants are soft, loose, frothy and amorphous when we compare them with trees and shrubs and especially so when we clip trees and shrubs into shapes and hedges. When designing gardens we are told to start with … Continue reading
Perennial Meadows – Plant driven design.
The plants you include in a garden will surely influence its design – well, yes and no. In the Netherlands the native flora and different ecological habitats are celebrated in a network of so-called heemparks or native plant parks. These … Continue reading
Perennial Meadows – Ideas and expression within planting design.
Is colour enough? No, in a word. Of course it is the first thing we see when looking at planting schemes and it can strongly influence their impact, but colour alone is only a small part of the challenge of … Continue reading
Perennial Meadows – Design Principles
The two things we always and regularly do with gardens is look at them and walk within them. Of course there are more possibilities: we drink and eat there when the weather is fine, we play, we entertain and maybe … Continue reading
Perennial Meadows – Mass planting, mixed planting or do we mean matrix planting?
The lawn is dead, long live the perennial meadow – this has long been my philosophy. Last week I was in a conventional garden with grass paths and island beds and it really seemed strange, but reassuringly nostalgic! Finding the … Continue reading