{"id":8492,"date":"2016-09-10T00:20:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2016-09-03T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T07:44:04","slug":"green-vista-from-combining-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/green-vista-from-combining-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Vista From Combining Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4120\/4920777472_d469ce8a0e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your garden will have viewing points from which you can see a vista. This green vista has scale and impact but you can create your own combination with just a few well chosen plants.<\/p>\n<h3>Plants in this Display<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The woods form a back drop to this view and include some old Rhododendrons and various deciduous trees.<\/li>\n<li>Drawing the eye to the centre is an Acer palmatum with purple-green leaves and a strong geometric shape.<\/li>\n<li>To the left is a lime green conifer that could be Taxus baccata an upright Yew.<\/li>\n<li>Immediately in front of the Acer are a collection of acid loving acid yellow Ferns.<\/li>\n<li>The strong leaf shape of the Rheums are in the fore ground.<\/li>\n<li>At the front are flowered Primulas of the Candelabra variety and a collection of grass like Iris.<\/li>\n<li>Other plants fill up the space so that in the middle of August there is no bare soil showing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Selecting Your Vista<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For your backdrop use trees or shrubs to screen out ugly areas.<\/li>\n<li>Vary the shapes of trees, shrubs and plants.<\/li>\n<li>Green has more shades than any other colour from bottle green to lime, blue-green and purple-green to yellow-green and so on. This provides opportunity to select contrasting or complementary shades.<\/li>\n<li>Shape and texture can play an important part in providing the eye with something to consider after the initial view has been taken into account.<\/li>\n<li>Construct your layout like an artwork. Split the view into thirds vertically and horizontally and aim for interest at the intersections.<\/li>\n<li>Circular and triangular impressions work well be keeping the eye moving but holding it on the main view.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4136\/4751700228_f50c4e32ba.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3310\"><br \/>\nRheums are not just Rhubarb<\/a> link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your garden will have viewing points from which you can see a vista. This green vista has scale and impact but you can create your own combination with just a few well chosen plants. Plants in this Display The woods form a back drop to this view and include some old Rhododendrons and various deciduous trees. Drawing the eye to the centre is an Acer palmatum with purple-green leaves and a strong geometric shape. To the left is a lime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/green-vista-from-combining-plants\/\"> 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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","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=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}