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How to plant like a pro
16.10.2023 - 12:21 / theenglishgarden.co.uk / Niamh Collins
If you’ve gazed at your summer garden thinking about gaps in your planting, are developing an area or taking on a completely new garden, it can be difficult to know quite what to include, and where it might go. Designer Humaira Ikram is regularly commissioned to devise planting schemes for major show gardens and also runs the Garden Design Diploma at the KLC School of Design. Follow her primer on how to plant like a pro and you will soon be on your way to successful schemes.
Before you start, make sure you know all the idiosyncrasies of the space at hand: aspect, soil type, sun and shade, damp and dry all affect what you will put into the garden. “You need to know what your site is like: get a survey done if you’re starting off, take a soil sample, work out the slope and aspect, check things like atree canopy even if it’s next door and not in your garden,” Humaira suggests. Before you feel intimidated by working this out, consider that you might already know it pretty well, having lived with it every day. “Being a designer can be tricky because you may not know the site very well. And so because clients are paying and you want to design something that won’t have any issues, you can sometimes play it quite safe. But lots of amateur gardeners know their sites really well, understanding little things you can’t see such as a dry patch or where the wind might be very cold patch. This means they can try things out in a way a designer working on project might not do.
With so many images of gardens available, and so many styles and influences to pick from, establishing exactly what you want from the area to be planted can take some work. Designers work hard at this initial step because everything else leads from it. “How do
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