Beginner Gardening: January 2010 - still celebrating our gardens, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Thanks, Jo Ann. Sounds like a great trip. Bavaria is on my eternal list.

Sure, Marti. Try your best to avoid rigid soldier straight lines of plants, like some nurseries have. They may be forced to do it to maintain order but it certainly doesn't make a garden. Try for long soft curves and half the battle is won. It's much easier to mow the grass along long curves than squared off beds.

Straight lines can't be avoided with gardens at the side of driveways or walks but you can trick the eye with swirls of color.

Here's a photo taken at Eartheart Gardens, a Japanese iris and Siberian iris "nursery", that does not have those awful soldier straight lines of plants. It was heaven on earth to visit.