Vertical Space
by Sara Begg, Executive Editor
A few months ago, I was talking to a friend of mine Naomi Blumenthal. She is a garden designer and writer out in western Massachusetts. I was talking to her about some of the weak points of my garden and she gave me some good suggestions. The comment that stuck in my head was her suggestion that to consider scale and the vertical space in the garden. Since then all I can think about is how to use more of the vertical space in my garden, especially in the entryway. As I've written before, my garden is bordered one side by a tall brick wall (a neighboring building). While I don't think it is legal without asking the landlord of that building...which I'm planning on doing....I'm going to hang three planting panels from The Gardeners Supply catalog...a la Patrick Blanc.
I have a mini-version of the green wall, indoors. My husband bought me a small staghorn fern for Christmas. Originally I was going to hang it on this tall wall I have in my bathroom, but now I've realized that it needs too much watering that makes it very drippy. The wall would then become very mildewy, which would not be good. But it is beautiful and watching each new frond form and grow every day is fascinating. Everyone should have a staghorn fern.
This may not have been what Naomi meant by considering vertical space, oh well.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:41:04 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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