garden
First a disclaimer . The featured image is not my own , I borrowed it from the interweb , but gives an imprint of what I ’m aiming for .
I have begin to wrangle my get list of available plant into something approaching a excogitation for the mete . Actually that ’s not quite true . It ’s really more like arranging the chess game pieces before the game commence . Perhaps it ’s more like trying to find the missing Corvus frugilegus down the back of the sofa . Anyhow , pretend propaedeutic to adjoin blueprint rather than the design itself . Definitelynotprocrastination . Nossir .
To begin to make sense of all this , I ’ve done what any troubled office worker would do , create a spreadsheet . Step 1 has been to build a database of plants I have or gestate to have and researching equipment characteristic such as preferred prospect , color , inflorescence season , foliage colour , pinnacle , spread and so on . This being a web log about propagation , I have also noted propagation methods recommended for each plant , for future mention . Step 2 has been to attempt to discover which industrial plant pop off well with which other industrial plant on my inclination . To do this I ’ve looked through various garden books I have , garden plans , websites to see what I can discover . Here is the database in all its glory . If you tap the image you’re able to zoom in to see what ’s going on in the mussy position that is my brain .
I was beginning to find it bewildering to think about colour palette with umteen variation on a paper of red-faced , red / royal , red / orangish , pink / reddened bombast blah . I ’ve added an attribute to each works – everything is either red-hot , fond or cool . Red and orange and their like are live ; yellow , pinkish , purple , brown , are warm ; white-hot , violet , blue , green are all cool . I ’m pass to make grouping based on that attribute and height , in the main . Next I have to adjudicate which plants go in which border . I ’m thinking of take a folio out of Rosemary Verey ’s book and have a hot border and a coolheaded border , perhaps with some ‘ warm ’ grading between . Not certain yet . My head might actually explode if I stress to factor in foliage too . Oh , and flowering fourth dimension . And preferred aspect . Boom !
The homework work on the database is pay some dividends , however , some useful management information is seeping out from the underlying data point . Here is the cross - reference table of colour temperature vs size . It will at least avail me to figure out what might go where . The numbers in the mesa are quantity of works available , more to be add together as cuttings hit , germinations happen .
Where is the borderdesign() function when you need it?
I should conceive this to be an iterative process , I think , for my sanity as much as anything else . Year One will be an experimentation to see what works well , where there are bare or uninteresting spots at unlike times of year . I can always move plants around . I ’m also impatient so I ’ll overstuff the border I think . When things start to look overcrowded , I can withdraw to make way .
To misquote the Orange One , ‘ who knewhealthcaregarden design was this complicated ? ’
I ’ll be back in a brace of weeks with some more definite borderline designs .
Method to my madness…
[ Update 02–5 - 17 , see what the border design eventuallybecame . ]
