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How to Give a Garden a Sense of Age and Substance with Interwoven Plants

Create the illusion of age by haphazardly seeding the same plant in nooks and pathways.

Create the illusion of age by haphazardly seeding the same plant in nooks and pathways.

Photo: © Marie Iannotti

Another way to approach this drifting repetition through the garden is to tuck individual plants in between larger plants and even in the borders and walkways, as if they had seeded themselves there. Eventually they will, but there's nothing stopping you from creating that illusion from the start.

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