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ALL THE SMALL THINGS
We asked our contributors: What is the best spacesaving
idea you've seen ortried in a small garden?
> Shawn Bean, writer. Fresh, p. 15: "When
I lived on Manhattan's Upper West Side, I
discovered this amazing garden while walking
to Central Park. Built into the slim gap
between two high-rises, the garden had
roses, wildflowers, ornamental grasses and
trellises with bougainvillea. For an island that
has made room for 8 million people, this was
the city's best use of a tiny space."
► Tovah Martin, writer, Plant Palette and
Landscape, pp. 24 and 86: "When I achieve
the plant version of perpetual motion, that's
when I feel that space is utilized to the max.
Efficiency at its finest is threading spring
bulbs between Callicarpa shrubs before they
leaf out, then turning the action over to hardy
geraniums and phlox bedded beneath before
chasing it with heirloom purple cabbage when
the Callicarpa is in berry."
■< Megan Padilla, senior editor and writer,
Fresh and California Dreamin', pp. 15 and 56:
"The Davis Dalbok garden featured in this
issue is not large at all. I love how he placed
a massive mirror against the fence behind
layers of plantings and the edge of the basalt
patio. The mirror goes mostly unnoticed but
creates the illusion of an extended part of the
garden that isn't there at all."
< Rob Cardillo, photographer. Plant Palette,
p. 24: "Small gardens, including mine, tend to
be overcrowded. We keep shoehorning new
plants into densely populated beds and allow
established plantings too much freedom. I'm
slowly learning that good gardeners prune
ruthlessly, thin vigorously and chuck out underperformers.
The art is always in the edit."
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