What do you do with a small space?
Regardless of your garden’s setting the same rules apply.
In the ‘back to basics’ garden some of these ‘rules’ have been used; and made more apparent by stripping away much of the everyday clutter normally associated with gardens in this country. This has been done to show how a garden design works on a basic level.
You can find the garden at stand D/85 from the 23rd – 27th of July 2008
Two planting combinations for a sunny border. Both would provide fairly long lasting interest in a garden or municipal planting situation. Both could be described as modern in appearance and style, with the inclusion of grasses and large blocks of herbaceous material.
The two different maples used, Acer ginnala and Acer carpinifolium are both small multi stem trees suitable for small gardens. The trees work well with underplanting, as they don’t leach the soil of nutrients as a larger specimen tree would
Design Brief:
To create a ‘hot’ looking border with prolonged summer/autumn
interest. The numerous mass planting of herbaceous material is blended
with grasses and shrubs, will provide a modern look to the space. The
two small multi stemmed maples provide a strong vertical element.
The colours present are predominately red, orange, yellow and green.
The real contrast will come from the contrasting look and textures of
the different foliage types.
The border is relatively low maintenance, and as stated is not a ‘year
round’ border. I prefer to design different areas of the garden to be at
there best at various times of the year, as opposed to every space
constantly trying to put on a show. By doing this individual planting
areas do not have to be compromised by generic ‘year round’ planting,
and can become seasonal instead
