Looking at your Garden with a Critical Eye
Sunny Perennial Garden
Did last year’s garden just look okay? Or did it look good while things were in bloom then pooped out? Or did it flat out just not look right all season long? If this was the situation in last year’s garden, let’s set the intention to have a great garden this year.
Don’t worry about what the improvements will cost or the amount of work to get there. Let’s take these next few dreary months and study garden design. So, when the weather warms up and you make that first trip to the garden center you’ll make an educated purchase instead of an impulse buy.
My goal for the next few months is to educate you about garden design through a series of posting on garden design principles. My intention is to give you a critical eye to improve your garden, not necessarily design an entirely new garden. However, if that’s what the situation warrants the postings will get you on your way.
The garden design principles I’ll touch on are style, color, shape, texture, order, unity, and rhythm. Over the next few weeks when you see a garden photo make a mental note of what catches your eye. What do you like about the garden in this photo?