Northeast Gardening: Current Combinations, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Chuck - sparse is good when starting a garden. The more you study it and check out mature plants the more you can plan before you plant. Two of our gardens were planted in the sparse style and just allowed to fill out. One took about 3 - 4 years, the other just 3 years. Did Botan gardens have any Japanese irises in bloom?

A photo of the area would help, Chuck.

Patti - Victor was being compared to one of the Seven Dwarfs on another thread and he came out to resemble Dopey more than anyone else - youngest, smiling, etc. with no inference about his brain power. Anyhow, Google reported Dopey wore a green tunic and purple cap. Victor said if my DH, Jack, wore the umbrella hat that he'd dress up as the reverse eggplant. Jack agreed while Victor reneged .... so far.

How true, about the color coordinated gardens in our minds! Too often a plant blooms in a color we didn't expect and throws color schemes out the window. Then it either gets moved or I remove the flower. We had two salvia, of all the salvia seeds Jack planted, survive. I thought they were 'Blue Moon' but they're screaming red and will get moved today.

Some gardeners believe all flowers go together and then there are others with a bit more rigid plans (sounds like Patti and I) and if it's wrong, it's wrong! It doesn't mean we're cruel witches, regardless of the spelling of that word, but we have this image in our minds that we'd like to see blooming in our gardens.