Face Down in the Fish Pond: Dry Garden Design Basics - Page 2© Barbara M. Martin
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Dec 12, 1997
Try to look at your proposed changes or additions or deletions from as many angles as possible, including from inside and from the neighbors' viewpoints. Remember to test them out from both sitting and standing heights. Run upstairs and stare out a few windows. Sometimes there is a reason to view things at night as well as by day. Check from the "approach" perspective, and from the "looking back" perspective. I guarantee you will have some real surprises!
When you are happy with the layout, photograph the mock up. Take notes. Measure. Take notes. Did you write it down? I sure hope so, because you will need those notes next spring when you try to remember where you thought you were going to put all those plants you ordered! On second thought, maybe you'd better add a "holding bed" to the list, too! We'll look at "fitting it all in" next week! In the meantime, here is some "mind candy" to encourage creativity and three-dimensional thinking outside the mail-order plant box. ENJOY! p.s. measure take notes measure take notes write it down measure take notes write it down take photographs make a sketch write it down measure it take notes.... Welcome to Venice Beach. This is the World's Widest Web! -- expand your horizons to include the gardens -- which are to the right a couple of scrolls! AKA: Flat but broad -- How 2D can seduce and expand your mind! Some interesting semi-3D stuff.... SPACECUBES: Definitely 3D! a commercial-commercial at first glance but keep on exploring! ??? SCIENCE AND ART??? Get a fast connection and then hold on to your seat! Virtual Gallery!!!!!! BE PATIENT -- IT'S WORTH THE WAIT! (clay pot toad hut, no joke) WHEW! Back on solid ground! Just about tactile and totally 3D! HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS! Got a question or some back fence chitchat to share? Use the discussion link below or CLICK HERE FOR THE "BACK FENCE" MESSAGES! 25 GARDEN AREAS AND GROWING! BOOKMARK THE SUITE 101 GARDEN DIRECTORY ! Editor's Note: Beginning 2/15/98, watch out for Gecky my "kid link" indicator. This icon means I think a link is particularly appropriate for or of possible interest to children.
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If we have more photos to share, it may be time to update the garden tour. And Marge, I hope everyone else got as much of a laugh at my "greenhouse" as I did. Marge visited me a year or more ago. And ...
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Enjoyed the greenhouse tour! :) I just let my imagination fill in the pit. I guess you don't want to go out in the dark and fall in! Carol, tell Roger you found grass that looks great all y ...
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no. i prefer going to the grocery store in muddy Madras incognito thank you very much! :)Barbara Martin
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Well, Carol, find I don't have a long shot that does it justice, so this close up will have to do. (VBG)Use your imaginatio ...
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What is this -- family photo time? Barbara Martin
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