Artful Gardening

Rare plants and great design come together

Elissa Steves of Blacksburg , Virginia , has an unusual and very beautiful garden . Typically , gardeners either focus on hoard the most uncommon and exotic of plant , OR they focus on arranging plants into beautiful designs and design , but rarely do the two go together . Elissa is one of the exceptions , develop all sort of exotic , unusual plants , produce great design with those plants , and highlighting them all with an eclectic collection of garden artistic creation to create an artful blank space .

By the private road , a lot of containers show off in the same colors — the pots and the plants in them are all shades of brown , Orange River , and terra cotta . For contrast , the pots are surrounded by yellow and fleeceable plants . The result is a sophisticated and eye - catching color scheme . reckon our suggestions for container TLC .

A dramatic container full of succulents remain firm against a background of ‘ Carolina Sweetheart ’ redbud ( Cerciscanadensis‘Carolina Sweetheart ’ , zone 6–9 ) .

Different portion of the garden have unassailable color dodging . Here , red comes from the arbor and painted article of furniture , stress by vivid gold foliage from a yellow - leafage jasmine ( Jasminumofficinale‘Fiona Sunrise ’ , geographical zone 7–9).Learn how to create beautiful garden passageway .

A aspect down one of the garden paths , invite the visitant to search what beauties veil behind the next bend .

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Elissa is not afraid to take risks in the garden. Here a rich tapestry of green and yellow foliage is set off by a very unusual piece of garden sculpture—a tree that died and has been painted a bright blue.