Amazing Garden

the garden makes very good use of the 2 primary colours red and yellow ...

I have been using these 2 colours of late in 2 small gardens and even plant bright red heuchera next to a bright green/yellowish heuchera with good effect ...

add a few yellow leaved hostas and then dot in some evergreen stuff such as evergreen ferns etc which act as the backbone and use hakonochlea yellow grass as the edging ....

not many flowers, but colours and leaf forms are the main ingredient

very pleasant colours when used together, even though they are bold ....

I use the colour wheel often when planning cottage style gardens

 

I hate to say it but I don't like it at all. As has been said, way too manicured.
All those coloured blobs. :gaagh:
I bet a lot of folk on this forum have better looking and more interesting gardens. :thumb:

 

looking at the pics, I'd spend an afternoon in that garden with a dozen stella, a few bottles of good red wine, a sizzling BBQ with lambchops and a few racks of decent sized BBQ ribs ..... and some decent music and a bunch of good friends

that's the way I evaluate a garden ... suppose we all look at things differently

 

A dozen Stella and a few bottles of red wine would make a nettle growing through a shopping trolley look the Hanging Gardens of Babylon :D

 

I appreciate the effort he must put in daily, however Im almost embarrassed to admit how much I dont like that garden as it appears in this newspaper photo.



For my tastes its overly manicured with too many red and blue focal points. My eye bounces back and forth between them all rather uncomfortably. I actually prefer the 'before' picture.

The garden does look far nicer at in the photo Miraflores posted above.

 

Thank you dear...
As a matter of fact I posted the original picture on the Italian gardening forum but there was a chorus of disapproval. One of them being a lady from South Italy that wrote a book pin pointing at this garden as a "bad" example...
(I don't know the exact terms and I don't really want to investigate...)

 

Really really don't like this garden , far to neat and Kitsch . Its like something out of a 1930's movie , he just needs a yellow brick road and Dorothy could skip through it . I bet it is manicured everynight by a team of Umpa Lumpas, with nail clippers :D
So it is an epic no from me !

 

I don't dislike it and I would definitely want to visit it (it will happen before or later) but I would prefer a different kind of garden for myself.

Nevertheless I do realize the enormous amount of work that it must entail, especially the setting up.

 

I think the best gardens are those that look like you've gently held natures hand and guided it, rather than have stood over it with a whip and beat it into submission.

 

I like the way he's handled the colours but I don't like the lack of large masses of colour to counterbalance the smaller shapes. All the blobs of colour look roughly the same size, even the trees (might be an effect of distance in the photo). So it looks bitty rather than restful.

It's also a very unfashionable garden with it's symmetry, reliance on conifers and orderly, artificial shapes. But it's only a matter of time before we all revisit the 70s, I guess. And it shows that he's drawn on personal passion rather than just jumping on the contemporary bandwagon.

 

I like it, and would feel very pround to have it at the bottom of my garden.