Knot Garden

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Knot garden. A great knot garden is like a great wine. Transfer the design to your site with powdered lime white sand marking spray paint or stakes and string. See more ideas about garden design formal gardens beautiful gardens.

Leave an opening in your garden and create paths to walk or make it closed. If you re planning a formal knot garden draw your design on paper. Knot gardens have been a part of traditional garden design for hundreds of years yet they are rarely seen these days.

A knot garden is a garden of very formal design in a square frame consisting of a variety of aromatic plants and culinary herbs including germander marjoram thyme southernwood lemon balm hyssop costmary acanthus mallow chamomile rosemary calendula viola and santolina most knot gardens now have edges made from box buxus sempervirens whose leaves have a sweet smell when bruised. A knot garden is artfully laid out and planned in order to resemble the threads of ancient celtic knot work. This upright form of rosemary will form the hedge outside the knot garden and will provide intermediate height.

You can find books with knot garden patterns or create your own. Here s more about designing a knot garden and parterre. Two lavender varieties lavender cotton santolina chamaecyparissus and green lavender cotton santolina virens image 3 are of similar stature but vastly different colors.