Guest Blogger: Mark Nurnberger
My wife, Beth, and I, attended the lectures given by Amanda Patton this past week. She was interesting and thought provoking. Most of us don’t have the opportunity to design a large garden, but we can use the same principles in our home or Lakeside gardens.
Beth and I enjoy tending 3 Lakeside gardens: Kenton Row, and the 2 abutting the Shuffleboard patio. We especially liked the term “editing” that Amanda Patton used. It means removing a plant from the garden. It may be removed because of poor performance or rethinking the space where it is in the garden.
Each year presents new challenges to gardeners such as drought or too much rain. Amanda Patton encouraged attendees to take a picture of the garden and turn it sideways to see the perspective of the garden, both height and density of the plants.
