Comments on: Winter inspiration http://blog.blithewold.org/whats-colorful/winter-inspiration/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Fri, 17 May 2013 01:29:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kat http://blog.blithewold.org/whats-colorful/winter-inspiration/comment-page-1/#comment-14597 Kat Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:32:20 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=6107#comment-14597 I hear you, both Susan and Kris. I love pondering the elements of dynamic design in the garden. I think it's all more like a symphony than anything three dimensional. In building a masterpiece, the form is the element with which you must start. I always think of form as the "bones" of the garden...not more or less essential, but the basis on which all the rest can be built, created, composed. And color is a profoundly important and integral element of the composition - after all, human vision is in color. The music comes alive when all the complex instruments are working together in the final performance! <em>Kat, Well said! Thank you. I love thinking of the garden as a symphony... -kris</em> I hear you, both Susan and Kris. I love pondering the elements of dynamic design in the garden. I think it’s all more like a symphony than anything three dimensional. In building a masterpiece, the form is the element with which you must start. I always think of form as the “bones” of the garden…not more or less essential, but the basis on which all the rest can be built, created, composed. And color is a profoundly important and integral element of the composition – after all, human vision is in color. The music comes alive when all the complex instruments are working together in the final performance!

Kat, Well said! Thank you. I love thinking of the garden as a symphony… -kris

]]> By: Susan in the Pink Hat http://blog.blithewold.org/whats-colorful/winter-inspiration/comment-page-1/#comment-14557 Susan in the Pink Hat Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:51:27 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=6107#comment-14557 I don't like ordering these priorities. Rather, I have a hard time relegating color to a minor concern. It just seems to me that the best plantings harmonize these priorities. Of course, most gardens I look to for inspiration are the best of the best and my garden is definitely not. But I have a hard time looking at gardens where color coordination is disregarded. That's why I like naturalistic plantings because if you have enough plants mixed together, like in a meadow it all works. But it just doesn't seem to work for me when they are laid out in large homogenous drifts abutting one another. <em>Susan, I'm with you - color is never a minor concern. But I think I have a tendency to overlook the importance of form because I'm so busy loving color. -kris</em> I don’t like ordering these priorities. Rather, I have a hard time relegating color to a minor concern. It just seems to me that the best plantings harmonize these priorities. Of course, most gardens I look to for inspiration are the best of the best and my garden is definitely not. But I have a hard time looking at gardens where color coordination is disregarded. That’s why I like naturalistic plantings because if you have enough plants mixed together, like in a meadow it all works. But it just doesn’t seem to work for me when they are laid out in large homogenous drifts abutting one another.

Susan, I’m with you – color is never a minor concern. But I think I have a tendency to overlook the importance of form because I’m so busy loving color. -kris

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