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Garden structure – the surprising reason why some borders look brilliant and others don’t
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Garden structure means the permanent elements of your garden, and how they relate to each other.
It’s the paths, pots, walls, fences, arches, arbours and pergolas. It’s the trees and evergreen hedges – all the elements left when plants die back for the winter.
But this isn’t just about how your garden looks in winter.
Good garden structure is the surprising reason why some borders really seem to pop, while others appear to flop. It makes a huge difference to how your plants and flowers look in summer.
I visited Cloudehill, a Diggers Club garden, to talk to Cloudehill’s owner, Jeremy Francis, about the cool and hot borders.
When I saw the borders, I realised that their success was not just about the planting. It also due to the way the borders are anchored by paths, pots, evergreens and arches. ‘We started with the structure,’ said Jeremy.
Start with what you already haveMost of us inherit some structure when we move into a new house and garden. It’ll save you money to work with what you have already.
And a mature tree or an old wall anchors a garden. It makes it feel established.
At Cloudehill, all Jeremy had were the trees. It had been an old nursery, but hadn’t been trading for a couple of decades. So everything was very overgrown.
But there were some stunning mature trees, which had been imported from around the world in the early part of the 20th century.
Cloudehill is in the Dandenong mountain ranges, near Melbourne in southern Australia. The climate is almost similar to that of the UK and I recognised many plants that I grow in my own garden. But, of course, garden structure goes beyond weather, climate or zone.
Jeremy retained many of the mature trees. They give the garden presence and help shade the borders when the summer
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