19TH IMPRESSION with photos - Architectural Plants

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The creation of wonderful places using plants is threaded through
everything we do - the choice of plants we grow, the way we present
them on the nursery, the advice we dispense and the ideas we propose.
Architectural Plants is about shape - an obsession with the sculptural
qualities of plants where strong, eye catching outlines, delicious textures
and combined shades of green, rule.
We planted an avenue of large box balls either side of an existing path.
Bold and simple.
Hand in hand with this sculptural/textural/verdant thing must come
the question - ‘Yes, but how do I bring it about?’ Put at its very
simplest, take Kenneth Williams’ advice - ‘Be bold!’
There are a number of fundamentals that we use as guides when
helping people design their gardens (e.g. big plants at the back,
small plants at the front)
but none come as high up
the list as Be Bold and Avoid
Being Timid. Avoid it like the
plague. Nobody ever created
an interesting garden by
being timid. In fact, nobody
ever created anything of
interest by being timid.
Being bold - massive
swathes of the same plant,
avenues, rows, stilted
hedges, planting trees that
get ‘too big’ and trees in the
‘wrong’ place - all require, I
admit, a degree of recklessness,
courage and
confidence. If you feel you
may be positively predis-
Never under-estimate the effect of
shapely exotics from upstairs
posed to such a concept, we
can help. Our job is to
encourage people to do
interesting things with their garden - if you feel you may be teetering on
the edge of doing something interesting, please allow us to at least talk
to you about giving you a shove over the edge.
Fleshy, spiky, alien and outlandish. Full on, in your face,
screaming exotica. It works every time