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The Garden's Hidden Design |
| Section: LIFE / GARDENS |
| Author: Virginia Greiner |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,228 Words, 13,206 Characters |
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A beautiful woman and a beautiful garden share one secret. Both have good "bones." A garden's appeal can be enhanced with gorgeous flowers and other surface adornments, but its inner beauty comes from a skeleton of good design elements underneath. vbcrlfThere are dozens of ways to create good landscape structures without planting a thing. In fact, most design elements should be put in place before anything is planted. This is a hard lesson for most homeowners to learn, especially for someone who has just bought a new home with nothing but naked lawn surrounding it. The normal urge is to plant something immediately. vbcrlfA better way would be to think first about what landscape architects call the "hardscape"--paved paths and driveways, decks, patios, porches, fences and privacy screens...
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...ed with climbing vines or roses; driveways bordered with ground covers and bulb plantings; pretty lattice panels screening clotheslines and trash cans; expansive decks and patios set amid curving borders of shrubs and flowers; terraces shaded by big trees; vine-covered arbors. Each should be carefully connected with the next so that the whole structure hangs together in a beautiful design. vbcrlf
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