The T - Son floods the cyberspace as all the garden show speakers make their pronouncements . Here ’s Dan Benarcik , a horticulturist at Chanticleer Garden in Wayne , Pa. , and instructor at Longwood Gardens , Kennett Square , who is utter at a show in Pittsburgh , March 8 :
Three major trends in public gardening are act upon gardens today , according to Benarcik . They include the return of tropical plant and Victorian bedding plant as seasonal displays , and a newfound awareness of colors and textures in foliage in addition to flower . The third is an up - and - coming trend toward plant life architecture , or selecting plants for their distinctive anatomical structure .
On the other hand , Jeff Lowenfelssays from Alaska that besides organic methods , the next grown matter is “ programs selling specialty flowering works , which are nationally promoted under a firebrand name in magazine and other medium . The most noticeable of these is the Proven Winners political program , which has been around for several eld . There are four or five big growers who distribute to thousands of nurseries , such as ours in Anchorage , a few dozen hybrid plants originate specially for the home agriculturalist . Local nurseries get plants as stopple and grow them until they are sold . Each works is give a special recording label with book of instructions , the trademarked program name and a not bad picture of the plant life . Most are deal when they are in bloom . ”
I dunno , I do like some of the Proven Winners cultivars , but sometimes they just seem a way to charge more for plants . Disturbingly , Lowenfels next warns that due to drouth in Georgia , Oregon , and Minnesota , there will be far fewer plant usable for sale this springtime
Ah yes , theColor Marketing Group . I bonk them . They cull the hot colors and then circulate gorgeous mental image that illustrate the colour . They also bring us avocado green and harvest gold in the late sixty . ( My mammy is show with her gold fridge , above . ) Fortunately for us , they ’re stressing “ colors of nature , ” stressing that colors involve to be “ green ” whether they ’re really green or not . “ Anything that look like something that facilitate save the environment will be big , ” says CMG representative Amy Larrabee . They also betoken a heavier use of goods and services of red , part revolutionize by the Beijing Olympics , and concur with British designer Rachel de Thame , quoted by Amy a few posts back : pink and lavender are returning into favor . Too bad I am already well on my way of life to replacing those colors with yellowish / orangeness , and purplish / gamy . Lavender always stop up looking miry in my place .
And then , of course , the usual talk of outside animation and containers , particularly vegetables in containers , continue . I eff several citizenry who do really well with heirloom tomato in container .
I do n’t know what trends I ’ll be following this spring ( other than the common one of taste to keep my garden from seem like crap ) , but I am interested in try out for 1 . More aboriginal flora . Regardless of what Michael Pollan might think about that , I ’m interested in them . 2 . More uprightness . I think more tall plant and vines are needed in my minute , urban space . 3 . Less one - of - a - form ; more group of the same plant for coherency . 4 . And I must find room for a small bar , or some sort of plaza to hive up entertaining accouterment . I guess that ’s voguish .
