![]() ![]() When you’ve narrowed this down a bit and have created a sort of profile of your garden, either in writing or in a drawn plan, you can start to cross reference it with what plants will work where. What your soil type is, how much rain fall you get. This is as simple as working out where gets the most sun, which parts are in shade, are there any boggy or particularly dry patches, such as near a tree or wall. ![]() Understand the limitations of your gardenĪs with any planting scheme it’s important to know your garden and its idiosyncrasies quite well before you start. Picking out the lines, shadows and details of these sorts of visuals could help you look at your garden as more of a canvas than a garden - and it’s the sort of creative starting point that really leads to a beautiful and individual garden. If you want to get really creative, it’s also fun to start with a visual reference that isn’t a garden perhaps an image of a crumpled white sheet, or a black and white picture of a rolling wave. And if you are looking for inspiration for a white garden largely in pots Claus Dalby’s latest book Containers in the Garden has a whole chapter dedicated to this glorious art form.Ī white container garden by Claus Dalby - see the instructions here More recently head gardener Mat Reece’s white garden at Malverley’s has been gaining fans within the horticultural industry and beyond. Perhaps the most celebrated of white gardens is that at Sissinghurst Castle, former home of writer Vita Sackville-West and politician and historian Harold Nicolson. Here’s how to design your own! Where to find inspiration If the drifts of prairie style planting is likened to the broad brush strokes of a big landscape painting, then the white garden is a detailed pencil sketch: the lack of variation in colour focuses your attention onto the finer details. From choosing plants that flower at different times to thinking about foliage, form, movement and how the details of each plant complement that next to it. Although colour-wise a white garden is less varied (on first glance at least) the reality of designing something refined still involves a huge amount of creativity and skill. That’s why garden designers will always start with a scheme or concept - which helps them decide what plants to use, whether it’s based on scent, seasonality or something more visual like a silver foliage collection or a particular style. ![]() The limitations of choosing plants of a single colour means you can focus your attention in fact there are so many plants out there that if you don’t have some sort of guiding principles when you set about designing your garden, you will soon be lost and overwhelmed with options. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of the white garden. A garden with a restrained planting palette can be so exciting and atmospheric. ![]()
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