{"id":119,"date":"2012-03-17T01:48:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-04-10T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T08:19:00","slug":"tips-for-planting-in-groups-and-drifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/tips-for-planting-in-groups-and-drifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Planting in Groups and Drifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118 aligncenter\" title=\"drifts-aliums\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/drifts-aliums.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/drifts-aliums.jpg 450w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/drifts-aliums-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is great power through planting in drifts. Sometimes as gardeners we are a bit tentative and plant in ones and twos and so our garden becomes a bit of a hotch potch. However, if we can be bold and plant in large groups and drifts, the effect can be very impressive.<\/p>\n<h2>Tips for Planting in Groups<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Even in small gardens don&#8217;t be shy to plant in large groups.<\/li>\n<li> The above photo is taken from Oxford Botanic Gardens and shows some purple ornamental onions flowering in May. This is a herbaceous border which focuses on large drifts of plants. At any one time, there may only be 1 or 2 plants in flower; but the theme creates an impressive display.<\/li>\n<li>Use groups of the same plant or of similar structure.<\/li>\n<li>The leaves on the group below show how planting for shape and texture can be just as important as colour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4831008234\/\" title=\"Hyde Hall Green drifts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4099\/4831008234_ff8c604a81.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hyde Hall\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Tips for Planting in Drifts.<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you buy a large number of plants the average cost will be cheaper, you can benefit from economies of scale.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t just plant in regimented blocks and straight lines, allow the groups to merge into each other and plant in S shapes. This helps create a more natural look.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t just focus on the flowers but think of plants that provide all year round architectural interest.<\/li>\n<li>The top photo shows a planting scheme carefully chosen to concentrate on a particular colour theme. This creates a calming effect. It is good to have some aspect of the garden with these conservative planting rather than always focusing on bright colour.<\/li>\n<li>The photo below shows the use on one species, Primula candelabra, to provide the drifts unity and colour themes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5186913445\/\" title=\"Harewood Himalayan Garden by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1034\/5186913445_d022e11b73.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Harewood Himalayan Garden\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardeners can be a bit tentative and plant in ones and twos however, if we can be bold and plant in large groups and drifts, the effect can be very impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}