Planters & The Country House
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In the grand gardens of the country house, planters were used to mark the junction of a path or the ends of a terrace. Vase like and with clipped trees of trailing foliage , they create a formal look that can still be used to add structure and shape. When an elegant and restrained formality is required in the garden, the relationship between plants and planters is crucial. Plants that have a strongly defined shape all complement the traditional formality of Versailles planters. Try tightly clipped box or yew fashioned into cones, balls and spirals, or one of the many narrow, cylindrical dwarf conifers. A strongly
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Plants for your Planters
| To help you select the best plants for your planters. Here is a list of two hundred plants, with pictures, for planters listed by colour & season .
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Planters and The Country House
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shaped flowering plant, such as a chrysanthemum ball, can make the same formal impact as a box ball, with the added pleasure of a bright colour. A sense of formality is further emphasised when emphasised when planters of a uniform style are arranged in a symmetrical layout. A line of matching planters with identical plants, or
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Planters & The Country House
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duplicate planters and plants placed to frame a front door, an opening in a hedge, or to mark the start or end of a pathway work well.
Timeless
A single vase planter , similar to our Bladon, makes an imposing focal point in the centre of a formal parterre-a popular garden feature in the seventeenth century, which is now enjoying a revival. It consists of a bed of small geometric compartments, defined by low hedging and filled with either permanent or seasonal planting to which planters add authenticity.
In modern settings, geometric planters create a chic formal style planted with the clipped lavender, rosemary or santolina.
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