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Garden DesignA garden designer showed me a technique for planning flower beds that I found both useful and fun for its own sake. To help visualize what my new center beds would look like, I sketched out the shape of the beds on graph paper and then cut out pictures of all the different perennials from old nursery catalogs.
The photograph on my garden page shows the left bed fully in bloom. In these May 1996 photographs below, you can see the structure of the beds more clearly (although many of the plantings have changed since the beds were initially installed).
In the planning effort, I included pictures of all the plants I was going to plant. In later design efforts, I did several different versions of the plan that just included the plants in bloom at a particular point in the season (ie, early spring, late spring, mid-summer, fall). Colors are, of course, one of the most important elements in a garden design. Unfortunately, I'm partial to all of them, as you can see in my rainbow of colors collection of flower photographs.
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