Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

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Using naturalistic planting design is a perfect way to increase habitats and food for insects, bees, birds and small mammals. These habitats can be rich in diversity, beautiful and easy to look after,' explains garden designer Jennie Herrington.

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That’s because pattern and repetition are so important in this style of planting. And in a smaller space, there’s less opportunity for pattern and repetition. (That’s why it’s important to use fewer types of plants – so you can repeat them!) But hard landscaping is less important The New Perennial approach is about opening your mind’s eye to see plants for more than simply the beauty of their flowers. Philosophically, it’s about embracing change in the garden and the interplay of textures and foliage from birth to bloom and from decay to death. This quietly revolutionary aesthetic underpins a four-dimensional approach to design with the plantings composed like a living art form, designed to evolve in space and time.

Allow me to share some ideas to help guide you on the path less manicured. Inspired by nature. Attuned to ecology. Do try this at home. In his search for an expanded plant palette, Oudolf assembled and introduced a number of initially obscure perennials and grasses that fulfilled these criteria. Over the course of 30 years, he developed a signature perennial palette of plants that he could trust to behave as “good neighbours.” The shape of things Many of the flowers are also chosen because they have good seed heads. That make it a very low maintenance look because there’s little or no deadheading. Easy-care evergreen pots to add interest and structure to your garden all year round. 10+ plant choices for evergreen trees, shrubs and grasses for pots. A naturalistic style can be scaled up or down as needed, from the open expanse of a lawn-free front yard to a mere window box. Mind you, the smaller the scale, the more finely tuned the nuance and detail of plant selection and positioning become.

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Kelly’s front yard meadow (which he calls Meadow Nord) at Three Oaks Garden in late August 2019. (photo: Kelly Norris) I don’t dig up dahlias to store them at the end of the summer. And before you dig your dahlias up, it’s important to know the pros and cons. You… One of my favourite books on the subject is Planting, A New Perspective by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury. It’s a very detailed and highly knowledgeable, covering grouping and combining plants and long-term plant performance. There are planting plans and a closer look at issues such as the architecture of perennial plants. Her garden is distinct, yet her approach isn’t entirely unique. Across the world, a growing number of gardeners are embracing the feral nature of flora, to create gardens that embrace the call of the wild.The presence of weeds can have less to do with the weeds themselves and a lot more to do with something happening in the system that’s encouraging weeds to grow. Plus, pulling out every single weed can actually create circumstances that will allow even more weeds to thrive. It disturbs more seeds, stimulating seeds in the soil to germinate.

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In a typical home garden, there are generally four or five layers to consider when assembling a plant list and creating a naturalistic planting design. This image of my former uncottage garden reveals the principle at work in an open sunny raised bed. Forget the mild, manicured gardens of the past: planting today is undergoing a revolutionin taste and aesthetics. This is the first comprehensive overview of a new planting approach that is wild and natural by nature, reflecting the global turn towards sustainability and the current zeitgeist in garden design. Featuring over 40 gardens - from a perennial meadow in East Sussex, England to a private, drought-resistant garden in Australia - each garden in this stunning book is brought to life with beautiful photography and insightful text. Specifications:This extraordinarily useful compendium should be required reading for anyone aspiring to ... a gorgeous garden.' – New York Times Book Review The goal is to free the mind to think in the abstract when combining plants and to aim for a variety of shapes and effects in the course of one planting area. It may also gently steer the gardener away from the temptation to plant one of this and one of that with no sense of connection. Narcissus – although avoid the blousy variety, which would not look right – there are numerous varieties to choose from when you learn how to plant daffodils The aesthetic of the New Perennial garden is rooted in plant selection with an eye to both ecology and design.