Comments on: Garden Designers Round Table Post: ‘Top Landscape Plants’ http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/ Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Garden Designers Roundtable: Top Landscape Plants (Excerpts from Experts) | North Coast Gardening http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1915 Garden Designers Roundtable: Top Landscape Plants (Excerpts from Experts) | North Coast Gardening Wed, 25 May 2011 02:27:19 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1915 [...] Lesley Hegarty & Robert Webber : Hegarty Webber Partnership : Bristol, UK [...] [...] Lesley Hegarty & Robert Webber : Hegarty Webber Partnership : Bristol, UK [...]

]]> By: Robert http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1784 Robert Sun, 01 May 2011 12:52:55 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1784 I think you start with the structure and then the structural planting and then anything can make it 'pop', as you wonderfully call it, but you can't really do anything well until you have the foundation well laid. Thanks very much for your comment. Best R I think you start with the structure and then the structural planting and then anything can make it ‘pop’, as you wonderfully call it, but you can’t really do anything well until you have the foundation well laid.
Thanks very much for your comment.
Best
R

]]> By: Genevieve http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1781 Genevieve Sun, 01 May 2011 02:00:29 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1781 Robert, thanks so much for your awesome statement. YES, it is so true. Since I got my start as a maintenance gardener, I came to this realization from the total opposite side, of thinking of plants as primary. But even as a maintenance gardener, I saw that hardscape, paths, and the features of a landscape were what made it truly "pop" and be a pleasure to use. Robert, thanks so much for your awesome statement. YES, it is so true. Since I got my start as a maintenance gardener, I came to this realization from the total opposite side, of thinking of plants as primary. But even as a maintenance gardener, I saw that hardscape, paths, and the features of a landscape were what made it truly “pop” and be a pleasure to use.

]]> By: Robert http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1768 Robert Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:48:40 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1768 Yes, I do see. Surely we both just think that the design comes first and then the plants as part of the range of tools. And we respect all the tools and should know how to use all of them? Thanks for your comment best R Yes, I do see. Surely we both just think that the design comes first and then the plants as part of the range of tools. And we respect all the tools and should know how to use all of them?

Thanks for your comment
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]]> By: Susan aka Miss R http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 Susan aka Miss R Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:54:09 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1763 Thank you, thank you, thank you! PLANTS ARE TOOLS. I often comment to my gardeny friends that 'I hate plants' which is totally not true, but then the conversation can turn towards the why rather than the what. Of course I'd be a liar if I said I didn't actually love to use plants as much as a painter loves paint. For me they are a means to communicate, mitigate and solve design problems. I can lust over plants that I can't use or am not familiar with, but until they can do the work...you know what I mean. Thank you, thank you, thank you! PLANTS ARE TOOLS. I often comment to my gardeny friends that ‘I hate plants’ which is totally not true, but then the conversation can turn towards the why rather than the what. Of course I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t actually love to use plants as much as a painter loves paint. For me they are a means to communicate, mitigate and solve design problems. I can lust over plants that I can’t use or am not familiar with, but until they can do the work…you know what I mean.

]]> By: Robert http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 Robert Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:43:45 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1759 Yes, yes, yes, its the client's garden. I put myself in their shoes with my knowledge. Love your work and there is nothing as defined as a look, so don't worry! Thanks so much for your comment. Best R Yes, yes, yes, its the client’s garden. I put myself in their shoes with my knowledge.
Love your work and there is nothing as defined as a look, so don’t worry!
Thanks so much for your comment.
Best
R

]]> By: Robert http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1758 Robert Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:39:25 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1758 Glad you think we hit the right note! I think the trends and fashions can be taken advantage of as ideas if they suit you and your garden - but its quite a big if! Thanks for your comment. Great to hear from you. Best R Glad you think we hit the right note!
I think the trends and fashions can be taken advantage of as ideas if they suit you and your garden – but its quite a big if!
Thanks for your comment.
Great to hear from you.
Best
R

]]> By: rebecca sweet http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 rebecca sweet Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:13:30 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1757 Nice take on this month's topic, Robert! "the look syndrome" - very funny! It's something I strive to avoid at all costs. I would cringe if I heard someone say that about my gardens!! Part of the challenge of coming up with a design is drawing out a client's true wishes. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's not, but if I can find out what they really, really desire then choosing the right plants becomes much easier. Nice take on this month’s topic, Robert! “the look syndrome” – very funny! It’s something I strive to avoid at all costs. I would cringe if I heard someone say that about my gardens!! Part of the challenge of coming up with a design is drawing out a client’s true wishes. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s not, but if I can find out what they really, really desire then choosing the right plants becomes much easier.

]]> By: debsgarden http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 debsgarden Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:51:52 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1755 I appreciate your approach very much. Each garden should be as individual as its owner. As an untrained gardener, happily doing her own thing, I was somewhat surprised, when I came out into the gardening world and took a look around, to discover there were trends and fashions and rules! It was almost enough to make me go scurrying back to my own little plot, but really it just opened up possibilities - many of which I ignore. I appreciate your approach very much. Each garden should be as individual as its owner. As an untrained gardener, happily doing her own thing, I was somewhat surprised, when I came out into the gardening world and took a look around, to discover there were trends and fashions and rules! It was almost enough to make me go scurrying back to my own little plot, but really it just opened up possibilities – many of which I ignore.

]]> By: Robert http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/garden-designers-round-table-post-top-landscape-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1753 Robert Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:53:50 +0000 http://www.hegartywebberpartnership.com/?p=8891#comment-1753 Dear Susan, Thanks so much for commenting. You are completely right about it being a fine line. It is throughout. I think you pick up quite quickly the clients level of knowledge and ability to care for the plants and then it is almost you are right a balancing act: tough, fun, new, old kinda balancing act. But that balancing act is exactly what we can as designers do to perfection. Best Wishes R Dear Susan,
Thanks so much for commenting. You are completely right about it being a fine line. It is throughout. I think you pick up quite quickly the clients level of knowledge and ability to care for the plants and then it is almost you are right a balancing act: tough, fun, new, old kinda balancing act. But that balancing act is exactly what we can as designers do to perfection.
Best Wishes
R

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