Intense gardening
LS says I have to make a small intense garden since we have such a small area. I find it interesting, the trick is probably to find a favorite design and stick with it and probably "redecorate" after a few years. I think we will start with "the floor and the walls", this year and therefore I have a lot of broschures about stone paving at home.
I really like this design a lot, so maybe a curved flowerbed is an option. It´s from an idea garden made byTrädgårdsmakaren.
More pictures here http://www.tradgardsmakaren.com/tradgardsprojekt_5.html
By EH
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I like that round little sitting area! Nice. But the walls look like they can collapse easily of the stones are just stacked on each other.
I think the bricks are meant to be cemented together, but this was a show garden for a garden fair. I suppose they wanted to be able to pull it apart after the fair.
Have you looked at the other garden designs she has made? You you go back a step in the web adress and you will have more choices.
I am looking at this brick wall again, and I think it is too high. I low wall of real stone would be great, but why have it so tall? I really like the little round sitting place, but what would happen if you are more than 4 people? I still have to look up his other ideas... We have been busy in our garden, I'll tell you more later.
Why not a recessed bench, part of the wall?
I looked at his other works and I get this feeling it is too arranged, too square, too artificial, too designed. I am longing for gardens where you use the natural and don't try to make it artificial, like the garden of my Dad and our blog poster pippi longstocking. That garden is wonderful because it blends the natural with the whimsical, and doesn't try to rearrange nature or force it into an idea that is wasn't made for. Gardens are living things and changes with time and seasons, so you have to adapt to the garden, not force the garden to adapt to you. I also have a pet peeve for mixing too many kinds of materials at once, such as concrete, brick, 4 kinds of stone, and terracotta. Keep to a few kinds instead, and make everything user- and plant-friendly. And make sure you have plants that animals read.
"Animals read?" Haha, I mean animals like. I wonder what I was thinking.
You mean like tulips for the dear and such? :P
Yes, for the dear, not the deer.
Oops. Spelling, schmelling.
Dont you worry LS, nature is always taking over the garden, you should see my kirskål.... And I believe you´re right about his garden ideas, being very structured, but at least it´s not garden gnomes and flamingos in pink plastic in it.
Of course it would be nice to have a large natural garden. We have that, at Barking dog plaza. There the mullsorks (large rodents) eat the roots of apple trees, the water sick lawn is sounding swap, swap, swap when you walk on it. Large rocks emerge from nowhere in the lawn area (really a moss matt), which are removed with big effort by JH. And some gardening is going on in between. But you have to walk through non-gardeing areas to reach the "garden spots".
So, in contrast I will have a condensed, organized garden. For a while, maybe. Lots of flowers, all my favorites. Probably a very colorful and "plottrig" garden. But in time the plants solve it themselves, some grow in good health and some die.
And OK, a recessed bench in the wall is a good idea. Saving space too.
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