Design
To create effective garden designs, it is critical to understand the relationships between plants and their environments. It is our responsibility as gardeners to look out for the plants we sow into the soil; the plants rely on our placement for their future homes and success, thus we owe them our best considerations. Some plants may play well together, others may be easily bullied by quick, dense growing neighbors, and others may steal the spotlight. Ultimately to thrive in our modern environment, gardens must also be sensational for humans. Without people admiring, desiring, and caring for gardens, green spaces may diminish into monotony and lack the substances needed to promote diverse, healthy lives and behaviors.
Enhancing mature gardens
Some gardens may necessitate a nudge or gentle course correction to wax and wane with balanced breaths. Often as we steward mature gardens, we encounter opportunities to evolve the current design or supplement it with healthy, adaptable plant choices.
Comprehensive design plans
Michael has been apprenticing garden design and maintenance under Roy Diblik. Roy’s signature style is “Know Maintenance”, where the more one knows about a plant, it’s growth rate, and it’s habits, the less time and effort one will have put into the garden in the future.