I like to pack them in. If I find a gap then I will pull a bit off the root of my root geranium and stuff it in or break a bit off a sedum. As I weed the paths if I find anything self seeded like a bit of Jacobs ladder or a primrose I will move it into a bed. I put in two red campion wild flowers last year and they have self seeded like mad to fill a shady area which was pretty bare.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Cheek by jowl ... otherwise I'd never fit them all in
Very true Dove! Ditto that!
John Claudius Loudon, the developer of the Gardenesque style, believed that a planting should be recognised as a work of art, something which could be attained by removing surrounding plants so that a perfect specimen could be grown and seen, as well as planting in geometric beds, intensive maintenance and various other methods... He didn't much like the Picturesque style, which he thought might be mistaken for natural growth.
I suppose my garden is more of a collection of plants than a particular design, but it all fits together well and I've had lots of happy accidents by just squashing something in somewhere and finding that it makes a stunning combination with whatever was already there!
I can't abide geometric, I love self-seeded serendipity but I like to see the plants too. Admittedly, it's only the odd specimen plant ( not necessarily the posh ones!) that is surrounded by soil in my garden.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Mad as a box of lights - that's me.
Very true Dove! Ditto that!
John Claudius Loudon, the developer of the Gardenesque style, believed that a planting should be recognised as a work of art, something which could be attained by removing surrounding plants so that a perfect specimen could be grown and seen, as well as planting in geometric beds, intensive maintenance and various other methods...
He didn't much like the Picturesque style, which he thought might be mistaken for natural growth.
I suppose my garden is more of a collection of plants than a particular design, but it all fits together well and I've had lots of happy accidents by just squashing something in somewhere and finding that it makes a stunning combination with whatever was already there!