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The Daily Telegraph garden designed by Sarah Price.
Landscape architect Thomas Rainer has a new post on his blog looking at some current garden design trends. Two of these trends intrigued me: what Rainer calls “interplanted everything” and another he calls “community gardens” (by which he means plant communities not allotments).
Rainer says, “Massing is out. Highly interplanted, mixed schemes are in.” It’s a design aesthetic that mimics nature’s diversity, but in a somewhat more compressed form. The example he uses is the striking garden at Arthritis Research UK. You can see a video of that garden here. Rosalind Creasy has demonstrated, this same interplanting strategy can be used with edible and medicinal plants.
Another related design strategy are gardens inspired by wild plant communities. The example Rainer cites is the Daily Telegraph garden seen in the picture above. You can watch a video about that garden here.
Now how do I get Sarah Price to redo our backyard?
Have you seen a new garden you really like in the past year? If so, tell us about it in the comments . . .
