
While I wait for Mother Nature’s next cruelty to gardens, I am busy planning new plantings. They vary with gardens’ categories: new ones, small ones, big ones in need of revitalisation and big ones that are gloriously empty and need planting throughout. Planning of plantings can be micro or macro. It can be obsessive, down to the last mini-primrose, or relaxed, about which plants in a big batch will eventually go where. It is fascinating to see which type of planner new garden owners begin by being and which they become with experience.
在等待大自然对花园的下一次考验时,我忙于规划新的种植方案。根据花园的类型不同,方案也各有不同:有的是新建的,有的是小型的,有的是需要复兴的大型花园,还有的是空旷而壮丽、需要全面种植的大型花园。种植规划可以是微观的,也可以是宏观的。它可以是精细到最后一株小报春花的强迫性规划,也可以是关于一大批植物最终去向的放松规划。观察新花园主人最初是哪种类型的规划者,以及随着经验的积累他们会变成哪种类型,真是令人着迷。