“In nature, Mother Earth makes all the decisions. In our gardens, we get to choose which plants to put together” Gardening is all about relationships – between the garden and its surroundings, between hard and soft landscaping, and between plant and plant. Putting plants together writes garden sentences, and these sentences tell stories. Plants are fascinating as individuals but, in our gardens, they live their lives in society.
In nature, too, they exist alongside other plants, their partnerships the result of complex evolution, decreed by conditions of climate, soil and situation – Mother Earth makes all the decisions. In our gardens, we get to choose. Deciding which plants to put together is personal. Effective combinations are restricted only by the simple rule that the plants we put together enjoy similar…