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

pollyk wrote:
JasperDale, that cottage garden plus idea sounds lovely. Do you have some photos you can post?

We have large properties here. I have 63 acres. But sometimes that can be just way too overwhelming. Obviously I have not planted all 63 acres, but we have about 8 under cultivation for the nursery, and my private gardens. It's much harder to plan than a small area would be, and it's very hard for it to look like the areas are connected. And when I started I didn't know what direction I was going in, and ended up with no flow.

Also, I have a problem with trying to have something in bloom all the time, or at least looking good all the time, like you mention JasperDale.

Pirl and I were just discussing this, and I think I need some Japanese iris in this border, as the second picture will show it's pretty boring.

Here's the border in spring.