This year we are honored to work with Ken Druse, garden writer and host of the popular Podcast Real Dirt, in creating a true collector's catalog of fine woody and herbaceous plants for your garden. Ken shares his thoughts on designing a true collector's garden:
One of Everything - Designing the Collector's Garden. Design advice nearly always suggests planting in clusters of three, five, or more. In flowerbeds and borders, three plants can more easily mingle with their next-door neighbors. For instance, I might group three ground covers of similar scale and vigor according to foliage size and low stature. I often put plants with silver or gold foliage together. Or I'll be a bit more daring and contrast deep to light green varieties in a genus such as hosta. But what about us omnivorous collectors who simply want as many different plants as we can grow? A friend of mine who is an avid collector jokes that she likes to plant in "drifts of one, and sweeps of two." So do I.
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