Designing Abundant Flower Gardens for Small Spaces

When the dynamics of our world threaten our sense of abundance, it’s a life saver to have a garden that invites us to celebrate abundance. A garden designed to enlivens our senses while grounding us in its beauty.  And, has enough to create a flower bouquet we can enjoy inside.

I picked daffodils and hellebores to brighten our holiday table. And daily enjoy their beauty while celebrating them as a symbol of abundance and earths renewal. 

Now is a great time to start planning your unique flower garden design.

Small Space Design

Within this garden , there are three distinct but subtle spaces. I call them ‘coves’. All of them use a natural planting pattern of drifts and masses.

The ” middle area” is psychological room that you feel when you open a car door or walk by. It’s shapes by the curve of the low leucothoe shrubs and bounded by the dogwood tree.

The “ glen ” has an open woodland kind of feeling under the witch hazel shrub. It’s the multi-stemmed shrub that I use as a small tree.

The “street garden”– very open and sunny –features a perennial pollinator flower garden that blooms in seasonal progression.

    My entry garden is a an example of a Small Space Design. It’s welcoming in four season abundance with different kinds of spaces or “coves” . In this photo you see the mid-space area.

    Street Garden: Open, sunny, perennial pollinator border. It’s season begins with the daffodils blooming now. The emerging perennials will come up and start blooming all season long.
    Glen garden: There’s a lot going on here. A mass of flowering blue vinca creates an spacial under the multistemmed tree shape of the WitchHazel. Note the large broadleaf evergreen Rhod giving it background. The shorter growing variegated pieris create the space and add year round texture and contrast with its foliage. Note the early flowering white Hellebore by the rock.
    The other side of the same arrangement.

    Abundance

    To design for abundance, I plant so there’s plenty of color, texture, and defined spaces. Plenty to see and appreciate in our daily activities like going to the car, putting out the trash, coming home. Plenty of flowers to pick for a bouquet starting in early spring.

    Now is a great time to start. Email me to start the design process.

    Email me: MvonBrinckenLGD@gmail.com

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