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Garden Design: The Monochromatic Garden

August 19, 2010 by Jeanne

 

New Article –
Garden Design: The Monochromatic Garden

The link above will take you to my latest gardening article – the Monochromatic Garden. I plant an orange-yellow garden next to our patio. Dominated by marigolds with bronze and yellow snapdragons accenting the edges and a cheerful burst of chrysanthemums in the fall, it’s a lovely garden that practically glows with light. Although the design and arrangement of plants in my own patio garden isn’t great (I leave things more to chance than design, and I couldn’t resist pink and bronze begonias – which don’t match but I love them, so in they went) it’s a start.

Enjoy the article!

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  1. Bangchik

    August 19, 2010 at

    A nice design. There is a lot of “chance” going on in the garden to give a little bit of variation to what had been designed. ~bangchik

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