Want a Bigger Garden in a Small Space?

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...

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