Garden Chat

Fine Music Radio — We often hear the expression- You cant put that plant there, it just doesn’t go! Or you can’t mix roses and succulents. My best is, Oh my those colours don’t go together!! Well the good news for the uninformed or style fanatics is that they all go together if you just step back from the so called norms and dictates of society and fashion. The more colours, textures and characters you have living around you, as in nature, the more interesting and progressive you become Landscapes that are filled with mass planting, stereo monoculture and a set form, create unproductive minds that don’t experience diversity and hence are not colourful in themselves. I watched the behaviour of people crossing a large city pedestrian plaza which had the odd tree (not nearly enough), some raised planters (all massed with the same plants) and lots of concrete all about. Most people had heads down and moved across it without giving the landscape a second glance. FMR GARDEN CHAT SCRIPT - 13 July 2019.pdf &md