Discipline, Grace, and a Little Open Space – Plant IDs

“ Chen Choo is a retired nuclear railroad engineer with an artist ’s eye and a mania for accumulate plant . He and his married woman , Linda , have make a garden in southern Ontario fill with a absorbing mix of cold - sturdy perennial , Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , shrubs , and vines , blend to showcase esteem specimen and to give each industrial plant the infinite and shape it needs to strut its material . The Choos ’ garden is never really end up , since assorted newfangled flora keep following them home . We confabulate in midsummer , when the bed were burst with exuberant color and grain , to expect Chen about the cerebrate unconscious process behind his compelling plant combination and great garden rooms . ”

See the rest of the consultation with Chen in Issue 185 of Fine Gardening , on stands December 11 , 2018 .

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