Want a Bigger Garden in a Small Space?
Monday January 14, 2008
Big gardens make big impacts. Unfortunately we don’t all have the acreage to garden on, that so many gardening books use to demonstrate design. There are several tricks for making the most of your garden space. Charlie Siegchrist gives us a quick tip on how to make whatever size space you have seem larger than it is. It’s an easy to implement juxtaposition of hot and increasingly cool colors that tricks the eye into seeing more depth than is actually there. If only there were a trick for squeezing in all the plants we buy when we are truly out of space...
Photo: © Marie Iannotti (2008) licensed to About.com, Inc.
Comments
This one of the best garden tips I’ve read (and seen in the video) in a long time! I had to learn this by trial and error and I still didn’t think about greying down my colors at the back of the garden. I knew that red and yellow at the back made my garden look small and lavender made it look bigger (Only took me 30 years to figure that one out!).Now I want to try Artemesia at the farthest spot! Thanks for the tip!
I know a lot of gardeners don’t like to use bold, hot colors, but this tip also helps if you’ve got a garden you want to see at a distance from your window. Subtle pastels and even textures and forms get lost past 20′. Bright colors make a much better view.