I swing both ways (oo er missus). I am making a garden out of a field so usually when I decide to embark on a new bit I'll plonk whatever plants I have spare, maybe place a couple of strategic ones if I have them (trees, usually). Then fiddle about and jiggle about and once some things become established and I can see what shape it wants to be, I begin to move and place and replace to reinforce that.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm a total plonker . Mother nature is sometimes kind and 'places'. Sometimes my plonking is awful and the only answer is invasive surgery. Often, I just live with my mistakes and they tolerate my neglect.
I am a placer, however I sometimes obtain or buy plants which I don’t exactly know where they will go until I plonk the pots in different places to see what will work!
Been in this garden 4 years went on local education evening course on garden design and had all these grand plans!!! Ahem.... then the plant mania took over and the plonking began. Mind you I enjoy those happy accidents when something self sows or you put a plant in and then something comes up you'd forgotten about and the combo works.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
There are places I don't plonk