Gardening columnist Joshua Siskin writes about garden design this week.
When it comes to garden design, it’s really a question of what your motives are for having a garden in the first place. A gardener’s garden, for example, will be full to overflowing with so many different botanical species that no design scheme may be discernible. The English garden style, which is more than 200 years old, is meant to recreate the feeling of the countryside on a spring day, when most plants are at the peak of their bloom.
In the spring of this year, I saw a front yard that consisted exclusively of California lilac shrubs and Mediterranean spurge . The stout panicles of blue flowers and deep green foliage of the Ceanothus contrasted perfectly with the puffy chartreuse bracts and chalky blue-green leaves of the spurge; all in all, it was a most glorious sight to see.
Of course, you do not need to take a course in garden design in order to design a garden. Aside from repetition, another useful principle I refer to as “divide and conquer,” a tactic usually applied to political or military strategy, but also useful in horticulture. There is a cultural practice that will extend the planting season for annuals and perennials into July and beyond. This is the practice of building raised beds. Raised beds, enriched with homemade compost or bagged soil amendments, are the surest way of growing flowers, vegetables and perennials to their maximum potential, even when planted now.
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