I try and place. Spend ages moving things around in pots until I think it will work and then it doesn’t quite have the effect and then I plonk in stuff to fill gaps and lift colour... Autum comes and I dig it all up and do it again lol!!
Both. One area of the garden is permanently planted mainly for leaf colour, texture and size so plants are placed accordingly. Another area is haphazard with plants plonked where I can shoe them in.
I am a plonker and a placer. The reason for this is that regimentation in a garden looks just that. Everyone who sees my two gardens always comment how good it looks because so much variation catches the eye. Outside of that, the birds love it.
Aww I love this topic and all the comments you guys gave. I definitely have both genes. I spent hours staring at my garden and thinking about the arrangement and colour matches. But the next second in GC, I easily lose my mind and buy plants either pretty or dying or interesting or rare...See!!! I always have an excuse!!!
I am identifying with everyone one here who tries to be a placer but then can't resist buying something! It's very reassuring to know I'm not the only one...
I'm a placer to the extent that I work out whether it needs to go on the boggy side of the garden or the dry side. And whether it needs shade or sun. Other than that, I plonk it!
I wish I was a glow worm A glow worm's never glum Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum!
I wish I was more floral sometimes but I can identify with all the Ps, plonker, planter, placer, potterer and a picker (when it works). Not creative, no colour sense so when I needed Calendula I just filled the rest of the border with anything yellow/orange. Love plants but a bit of a disaster with planning
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I always try to plant in the right place but sometimes they outgrow that place or they have are hidden by other planting Then, to resolve where to then place that plant, I become a plonker ei: plonking it in because I must have it in my boarder. Colour combi's sometimes goes out the window when your at the plonking stage. I think it's because I hate to get rid of a healthy plant because it now doesn't fit my panting scheme. Gardening just ain't that easy 🤔
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Another area is haphazard with plants plonked where I can shoe them in.
I definitely have both genes. I spent hours staring at my garden and thinking about the arrangement and colour matches. But the next second in GC, I easily lose my mind and buy plants either pretty or dying or interesting or rare...See!!! I always have an excuse!!!
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
Gardening just ain't that easy 🤔