Re: Winter Interest/Backdrops
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Winter Interest/Backdrops
- From: M* M*
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:35:30 -0700
Anne wrote:
>I have enough trouble with all the study of plants, Latin names, &
>cultural conditions, let alone doing historical architectural research
>to "match" the gardens to the buildings. So our pseudo-Queen Anne
>building is surrounded by a wrought iron fence (Victorian, but not too
>bad) but has wooden arbors and trellises on one side, along with a lot
>of rock work that defines edges & corners -- very country casual, but it
>seems to work. Not "planned" at all, though!
Anne, it sounds lovely! I especially like to imagine the wooden arbors and
trellises. What do you grow on them? As for planning, maybe if we were
really planners, we'd all be "Landscape Architects"....but, instead, we're
people who just love plants.
One book that may interest you is American Border Gardens, by Melanie
Fleischmann (Clarkson Potter, 1993, ISBN # 0-517-57646-5). Lots of plans,
and most include at least some shrubs and sometimes trees.
Myrna, Zone 3, Montana
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