Garden design series

THE ELEMENTS OF GARDEN DESIGN
(This is the first design element in a new 12-part series.)
#1 Designing with Annualsby Jenny Andrews

As garden centers start to fill up with enticing displays of annuals, it's easy to grab everything you can and think about where to plant it all later. If you want a cohesive design (face it, we all know that looks better), here are a few essential tips for designing with annuals full story...

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Thought:

"Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing-to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson