{"id":7223,"date":"2010-05-06T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T14:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2010-05-06T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T14:06:20","slug":"bold-garden-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/bold-garden-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold Garden Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4583082051\/\" title=\"Abu Hassan Tulips \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4583082051_5ee1aaf60a.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Abu Hassan Tulips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make a bold statement in a garden you can opt for <strong>hard<\/strong> features and structures or <strong>soft<\/strong> features created by plants and flowers. <\/p>\n<p>I personally err towards the plantsmans view and like plants. However the use of one variety in great abundance can have a startling effect as these Abu Hassan Tulips show.<\/p>\n<p>Sticking to the Arabian theme not everyone can have a centuries old moorish bath in the garden like the featured garden below. The distinctly moorish shapes are replicated through out with the addition of large pots &#038; stands both terracotta and glazed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4505478319\/\" title=\"Moorish bath Garden Mallorca\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4044\/4505478319_924bb1fb09.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Moorish bath\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gardens both large and small follow the hard and soft landscaping options. The micro garden can also have many plants that flower in the profusion of this Calceolaria &#8216;Walter Shrimpton&#8217;. Contrast this with the hard landscaped rock garden features where this plant is at home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4583711058\/\" title=\"Calceolaria Walter Shrimpton\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4001\/4583711058_48d388a348.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Calceolaria Walter Shrimpton\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make a bold statement in a garden you can opt for hard features and structures or soft features created by plants and flowers. I personally err towards the plantsmans view and like plants. However the use of one variety in great abundance can have a startling effect as these Abu Hassan Tulips show. Sticking to the Arabian theme not everyone can have a centuries old moorish bath in the garden like the featured garden below. The distinctly moorish shapes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/bold-garden-displays\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}