Now - taking Julia's advice I have swapped my Amelanchiers along the avenue with Magnolia x loebneri 'Merrill' because they will be a bit more 'stately'. I have also changed the planting on the stramp - and used multi-clear-stemmed Amelanchiers growing out from very low Buxus hedges - like a carpet. Jamie suggested "something a bit weird" on the stramp but I really wanted to see those clear dark stems - particularly as you climb the steps. They will look quite dramatic contrasting with the light hard material. Emphasising the horizontal-ness of the steps I am also including blocks of Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster', a really good, upright grass which will give great vertical contrast. Another change: I have now used Escalonia in pink and in white in undulating blocks along the perennial meadows - and also cloud pruned on the sides of the stramp. It will love the south-facing location - and insects, in turn, will love it. And so will I.
This week has been spent producing a draft hardworks plan (lots of granite on the main path, changing colour and pattern at every main junction) and a structural planting plan. It all takes so long - I never finish what I hope to achieve in a week. I just need to stretch the days and weeks with a few dozen more hours. Does anyone know how to do this? Meanwhile, I haven't managed to complete any more sequential drawings although I have several awaiting Photoshop additions. And I haven't started on my base plan.
I did, however, manage to draw a cartoon for a friend who wanted something to illustrate something she had written on 'dentistry through the ages'. It was a little light relief in between the 1:200 demands. The patient looks a bit 'saw'. Ha ha, this degree is making me just slightly bonkers.
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ReplyDeleteHello Slightly Bonkers, I thought you had already inserted a Park Plait population, albeit a slightly rotund variety, from your last blog. Have they all run away?! Or maybe just slowly shuffled off in view of their size... The cartoon? Scary!
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My new park population will be dressmaker's pins. They will be more like the 'supermodel' shape as I would like to add a touch of class. They will be the 'sushi set' rather than the 'chip chavs'. But thank you for your concern. The rotund folk have returned to the Blu Tack fold.
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