Garden design fails
Lou12
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Apart from the obvious heap of used tyres and shopping trolleys piled up in a front garden the award has to be to a garden I passed in Bexhill about 5 years ago .
It was huge about an acre or so and consisted of a very large square lawn in the middle surrounded by square beds of alternate red and white bedding salvias in neat rows with exactly the same distance between each plant and nothing else.
It was truly the saddest thing I ever saw. Must have cost a fortune in salvias too.
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There's a woman up the road whose spring bedding consists of Barbie pink tulips, leery orange and yellow wallflowers and the odd tatty blue hyacinth. This display is framed by slabs of concrete. I thought it was an accident the first year, but it's the same every year.
Nice
I am off to destroy everything square in my garden.
ThIs is the garden my neatly ordered head wants me to have:
But I've decided to have this one this year when the builder has finished with the front of my house:
There's one near me which has obviously suffered ideas gleaned from the craze for Japanese style gardens. It's on a prominent corner plot and has a few random boulders, a couple of Acers and several tons of dazzling white gravel.....
each to their own I suppose!
There's one of those 'bedding plant' types up the road here as well B3!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Seriously those salvias must have been done with a ruler I swear!
Fairy, in the summer it will be orange or muddy yellow African marigolds , Barbie pink bizzylizzies and geraniums and industrial quantities of blue slug pellets. Oh and a couple of motheaten hollyhocks
Uniformity in garden design is a choice that a lot of people use. Some of my customers prefer.Some of the colour clashes with flowers and shrubs can be strange when requested. I have had a customer who only wanted blue and yellow flowered plants in the design that would flower at the same time this was produced by banda of agapanthus and rubelkia
Don't even like straight edges on a lawn
I do a double take every time I go past a house near here.
It is set at the top of a steep slope and the front garden descends to road level in a series of shallow, rectangular terraces, each edged with grey concrete slabs and each filled to the rim with grey granite chips. C'est tout, voila!
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
That must be gorgeous pansyface
B3 - takes all sorts doesn't it?
Lou - I hate to worry you - but I love very geometric plans! I have quite masculine taste...
but I also love informal and wildlife ponds etc....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There's one garden I pass regularly that I first noticed as it was full of lovely swathes of cosmos. Looked eagerly for a repeat performance the following year, but no. That year and every year since it's been boring rows of those hideous brown-leaved, pink- flowered bedding begonias. Cosmos obviously way too informal for him. (Why am I sure it's a him?)