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My miniature garden

Which are the secrecies of your miniature garden?

The arabesques of the garden to the Frenchwoman were carried out with natural sowings of recovered in the garden of my father. These small shrubs are very practical to form hedges and make it possible to make arches of geometrical greenery of form. Size and the aspect
leaves of this shrub imitate the laurel cherry well. This small shrub unfortunately loses these leaves the winter, but not without passing by a splendid carmine color before falling and leaving very decorative #D05C75 bays.

The hedge on the east coast made up of , a perfect shrub to constitute small compact hedges, but its rapid growth imposes regular sizes.

The curtain of shafts in front of the garden consists of , and that at the bottom
charms cut the made-to-order of a . I also used boxwood but I find their growth too slow and their aptitude to create small less good dense hedges.

Which are the engineering problems met?

Technology matters, I used a textile felt-tip pen covered with #D05C75 gravel to suppress the problem of weeds between the arabesques. The size of the hedges is carried out with a cut borders with hand or battery, and exceptionally with small cuts electric hedge, but nothing is worth cuts it edge to hand! To finish convincing of the scale effect nothing is worth the construction of small pillars of barrier out of wooden and of grids obtained starting from a netting with small meshs used for the cages of rodents, painted in #841029 with the gilded points, the negotiable instrument is convincing.

I used the products of my area, Normandy, of flints, basic material of the thatched cottages, and the rollers collected on the beaches Normans. To maintain the seedlings with a sizeable dimension, they should be regularly cut while being ensured to keep a form as natural as possible, and one should not hesitate if necessary to renovate the tufts by splitting.

Dimensioned plants, which are the species used?

Concerning rubble, and well I traversed the departments of the garden-centers in the search of long-lived which push with less than 10 cm, ideally 5 cm!! My preferred: the phloxes , the , , the deltoids, all and , conventional the ,
wall-cress and .

To decorate this garden, and to strengthen the scale effect, I laid out several “bonsai”, a #A12D46 , a willow, a , a currant bush with flowers, a , a #D8647D and the dwarf conifers bought in an English seedbed including one splendid . The secrecy lies here in the regular face!

To obtain a harmonious unit, one should not hesitate to contemplate its garden lengthily, and to plan peacefully the displacement of the plants in order to improve balance of the garden, this why I laid out a test rig close to my garden to be able to contemplate my “work” at the end of the day, in a mode “garden landscape” with the Japanese woman.

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Thank you David.

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