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When walking around a place like the Chicago Botanic Garden, it's easy to get intimidated by the scale of things -- especially considering the space is more than 1,500 times larger than a standard quarter-acre lot. When we are awed by the grandeur one of these display gardens, our minds often go into I can't do that at home mode. The problem is one of scale. How do we translate the idea down to a manageable size for our home garden?
For me the trick is to ignore size and look for the design principles at work. Take massing, for instance -- the use of large numbers of the same plant to create visual impact. Many of the gardens at Chicago Botanic Garden use massing to great effect.
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The scale of the gardens in each of these photos is different. Some are enormous, others quite intimate. But each uses the same principle of massing -- and each could be reproduced on a smaller scale in a home garden.
For someone who is more plant collector than garden designer, I struggle to use massing well in my own garden. After my visit to CBG, I'm motivated to find ways to incorporate massing as a central element in my home garden design.
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The scale of the gardens in each of these photos is different. Some are enormous, others quite intimate. But each uses the same principle of massing -- and each could be reproduced on a smaller scale in a home garden.
For someone who is more plant collector than garden designer, I struggle to use massing well in my own garden. After my visit to CBG, I'm motivated to find ways to incorporate massing as a central element in my home garden design.
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