Northeast Gardening: Plant collector or garden designer? , 1 by bigcityal

bigcityal wrote:
About 200#, but I carry it well ;)

I have designed a few projects and they have been rather formal, unlike my gardens. I am pretty much a collector. My space is pretty small and plants have settled into beds where they will do the best. Pretty much have stuff flowering from April until freeze. I am always torn between having mixed beds with continuous blooms or having a bed stacked for all at once 'wow' blooming.