garden texture
Gardeners often forget the touchable appeal of texture in the landscape – the soft chenilles of tall grasses, the hairy stems of chamomile, the fuzzy wands of gayfeather and snakeroot.
Add texture to the garden just like you add color, using rhythm, consistency and repeats to create a cohesive design.
Plant in drifts, placing the soft, touchable textures closer to the edges of the borders.
Use only two or three textures, more than that tires the eye and makes the landscape distracting rather than enjoyable.
Include knubby succulents and choose plants with unusual seed heads, like clematis, alliums, plumbago, lunaria and dill.
Finally, use tactile plants like lamb’s ears, dusty miller, amaranth, velvety petunias, anything with catkins, trees with interesting bark, sunflowers and pine cones, witch hazel and willow branches and last but not least, the humble grass.
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