Show #20/8007. Grow For Me #2

New Hydrangeas

Eric J. recalls they mentioned that one of the things that was important was breaking up a lot of the more rigid, straight lines. As you said, you have a square house, then you've got a fence that goes around a square yard. So, there was a lot of thought that went into - how do we soften this? How do we make it flow more naturally? Eric J. thinks the mixed borders they’ve created along the fence lines are really, really beautiful, and exemplify that design technique really well. Talk us through the plants that you used and the way that you've thought about this design. Sure, this mixed border originated with creating or installing anchor plants. You’ll notice there's a pattern right now, of evergreens that repeat along the length of the fence, including the centerpiece evergreen, which is the Columnar Blue Spruce. Then between those evergreens, there's more repetition. There's a repetition of the little Quick-fire hydrangea with the pinky winky hydrangea and that's all well and good, but you wouldn’t want to leave your garden there because it would be perfectly symmetrical along a fence. So what that repetition allows them to do is kind of create this cacophony of color and texture in front of it. But it doesn't get overwhelming,