Consider Technicalities
Sunlight
Water
Maximize the kitchen-garden relationship
Near the kitchen is best
Consider the bird’s eye view
How will you view the garden - forget curb appeal (unless you're trying to sell!), but how will you see the garden and plant it for your satisfaction - if others want a good garden view, they can go plant their own garden!)
Divide into units
Repeat patterns and colors over a theme as much as possible
Enclose the garden
Fancifully, or conventionally, but with practical applications
Creates a special place; a sanctuary
Use existing walls and complement with fencing and/or planting to separate
Design the garden like a room, invoking texture, color and mood
A place to sit and view it
Use color and texture from adjoining walls
Keep in synch with the building’s styling
Create an edge with raised beds
Raise them with or without wood/bricks etc.
Design for counterpoint
Chaos vs. control
Color opposites
8. Go vertical
Structures add dimension to the garden
Grow plants that climb extending the harvestable square footage
Consider year round use
Schedule plantings to go in and come out as the seasons changed to allow for maximum year round use; design for four seasons in mind.
david
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