It's how all the best gardens are made!
A stone trough, grown tired with rampant Persicarias... an Agapanthus (if I remember correctly) and other oddities! Let's give it all a huge cut back; take it all down and maybe take most of it out! Then, let's look around the garden and see what free plants there are we could work with. I am often asked about the process of garden design. The task of designing a garden seems, at times, almost an impossible thing to do. Think about it. How do you create a garden like those you see out and about when visiting professional or pu blic gardens? It’s a mammoth task really! You want (need) trees and shrubs to give height, structure and a sense of permanence. You need smaller herbaceous plants which rise and fall at different times of the year. You’ll want all-year- round interest, yet given the constraints of border space, how can you achieve this? After all, a plant can only accommodate one unit of soil space at a time. Right? ...