When adding plants to the landscape an important aspect of design can greatly affect the final outcome of your landscaping in regards to plant spacing. Plants placed twice their overall diameter apart (2 feet apart for a 1 foot plant, 6 feet apart for a 3 foot plant) place equal emphasis on the plant and the space between the plants. So when you look at a row of several plants placed in this way, you see the plant bed (and the bark dust, any weeds, any trash, and any debris such as branches or leaves from overhead trees) as much as you see the plant. You certainly don’t want to plant things too close together for health reasons, but you also don’t want to put plants so far apart that they don’t look like part of a larger plan. Another thing to consider when placing plants is the species. When planting the same species, we want to place them close enough to each other so that they look like a unit, or so they look like they go together. When planting different species, we want to leave enough space so that we show the viewer that we intend to have two different elements.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:37:27 +0000
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