Garden Design Tip: When you are designing a small garden from scratch there is inevitably a waiting period when you have to be patient and allow the design to develop as the plants grow.
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However, I decided to add strong colour to the design by painting the wooden surfaces in my garden with coloured woodstain before it was planted. This gave an underlying structure to the garden as the plant gradually grew up to blend with the colour scheme of the furniture.
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In the first year I chose a cool green shade of paint called ‘Seagrass’ to complement the pale purples and soft, variegated greens of the planting. In year two I chose a bolder ‘cornflower blue’ so that the colour of the furniture wouldn’t be ‘lost’ among the larger, more developed plants.
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Learn more in the book, @the_modern_cottage_garden by Greg Loades. Pre-order now wherever you buy books. Available 9/15. See more in our bookstore, link in bio.
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