beautiful picture and good idea in Landscape Design Tips for a Smaller Garden

By LarryR
December 10, 2012

Want to make your small garden look larger? Try using a color scheme that includes plants with mostly white blossoms and green leaves. Add some green shrubbery and a colorful accent plant as well. The green and white combination gives the illusion of more space. Add some curving paths. They will also trick the eye into seeing the space as larger than it actually is.

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Dutchlady1

Dec 9, 2012 7:11 PM CST

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and please put that picture in the database!!

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mistyfog

Dec 12, 2012 9:58 PM CST

Name: shirlee
southeast (Zone 6b)

Lovely photo, and I can imagine just what you are saying with regard to my
own garden. Great tip.

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LarryR

Dec 14, 2012 12:24 PM CST

Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

Hetty, done. Thanks for the suggestion!

shirlee, many thanks for your kind comments. Glad that my tip was helpful.

Gardener was the label imprinted on me when the souls were handed out and so be it. --Margaret Roach (Thank you, Sharon!) Notes from the Garden: Articles of interest on all aspects of gardening
Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens: Come on in and take the tour! Check out the photos!

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virginiarose

Dec 15, 2012 8:41 AM CST

Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.

Larry,. what is that? Shrub or vine? Great tip!!

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29

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LarryR

Dec 17, 2012 1:25 AM CST

Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

Thanks, Susan. It's actually both! The vine is sweet autumn clematis. It's growing on a shrub that died several seasons ago. Here's more on the clematis: Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora)

Gardener was the label imprinted on me when the souls were handed out and so be it. --Margaret Roach (Thank you, Sharon!) Notes from the Garden: Articles of interest on all aspects of gardening
Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens: Come on in and take the tour! Check out the photos!

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virginiarose

Dec 17, 2012 3:34 AM CST

Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.

Thanks Larry!

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29

| @virginiarose | Post #337084 (6)

crittergarden

Jan 31, 2013 9:47 AM CST

Surprisingly GREEN Pittsburgh (Zone 6a)

I've been out for awhile, just catching up here.
I've always liked a predominately white garden, but I didn't realize it would create the illusion of a larger space.
You have inspired me to DO this in my little city yard!

SHOW ME YOUR CRITTERS! I have a critter page over at Cubits. http://cubits.org/crittergarde...

| @crittergarden | Post #353139 (7)

LarryR

Jan 31, 2013 12:43 PM CST

Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

Glad my article was helpful.

When your project is done, I'd love to see a photo.

Gardener was the label imprinted on me when the souls were handed out and so be it. --Margaret Roach (Thank you, Sharon!) Notes from the Garden: Articles of interest on all aspects of gardening
Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens: Come on in and take the tour! Check out the photos!

| @LarryR | Post #353234 (8)

crittergarden

Jan 31, 2013 1:04 PM CST

Surprisingly GREEN Pittsburgh (Zone 6a)

Oh it's more of a journey than a project!
Populating a garden on a disability income budget is a years long proposition!
But it's fun and helps my blood pressure, so I'm happy to be on the road toward it

SHOW ME YOUR CRITTERS! I have a critter page over at Cubits. http://cubits.org/crittergarde...

| @crittergarden | Post #353250 (9)

virginiarose

Jan 31, 2013 5:33 PM CST

Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.

Crittergarden, I have plenty of seed and it's not too late for wintersowing. Send me your address and I will send you some seeds to get you started. I have some white profusion zinna, white swan coneflowers, white asters, white rose mallow and white flag iris.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29

| @virginiarose | Post #353453 (10)

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Landscape Design Tips for a Smaller Garden

beautiful picture and good idea