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Exclamation, Punctuation, Accentuation
Friday, 11th January 2008
Accentuation, Exclamation, Punctuation
Presented to Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association.
Daniel Hinkley, plantsman
www.danieljhinkley.com
1. Introduction
2. Heronswood Perennial Borders 1991.
3. Same, 2001.
Accentuation; using bold foliage as focal anchor.
4. Darmera peltata, Heronswood woodland
5. Darmera peltata, Rock Garden, Heronswood
6. Same scene, Darmera removed
7. Rheum palmatum, Heronswood Woodland
8. Same, with Astilbe, et al
9. Same scene with Rheum removed
10. Astilboides tabularis with Iris sanguineus
11. Same, with Astilboides removed
12. Rheum australe, Miscanthus sinensis ‘Goliath’, Tsuga canadensis ‘Golden Splendour’
13. Same, with Rheum removed
14. Musa basjoo
15. Same
16. Same
17. Musa removed
18. Nicotiana sylvestris, Phlox paniculata ‘Lichtenspiel’, Symphytum x uplandicum ‘Variegatum’, Origanum vulgaris ‘Rosenkupel’, Salvia nemerosa ‘May Night’
19. Same, with Nicotiana removed
Exclamation; using vertical thrust for border depth
20. Phyllostachys bambusoides
21. Cupressus sempervirens ‘Stricta’ ala Marcia Donahue
22. Ilex crenata ‘Sky Pencil’, Berberis thunbergii ‘Helmond’s Pillar’
23. Ilex creanta ‘Sky Pencil’
24. Ilex removed
25. Monarda ‘Sioux’, Sedum spectabile ‘Stephen’, Berberis thunbergii ‘Helmond’s Pillar’
26. Berberis removed
27. Ilex creanta ‘Pyrimidalis’, Marilyn Abbot garden, Australia
28. Same, Ilex removed
29. Phormium tenax ‘Purpureum’, Heronswood Arbor Beds
30. Phormium removed
31. Heronswood backyard, Taxus baccata ‘Beanpole’
32. Same scene, from arbor
33. Same, in arbor
34. Same, Taxus removed
35. Larix kaemferi ‘Pendula’
36. Same, in autumn
37. Same, in winter
38. Heronswood Woodland, Dicksonia, Darmera, Iris pseudoacorus
39. Same scene, Iris removed
40. Too much vertical; grasses, Kew Gardens
41. Grasses, Great Dixter
42. Soest Garden, Sequim, Wa. Calamagrostis acutiflorus ‘Strictus’
43. Water jets; Heronswood Arbor
44. Same, fountain removed
Punctuation; using color and form for impact and cohesion
45. Perennial Borders, Heronswood; Phlox paniculata ‘Norah Leigh’, Lobelia cardinalis ‘Sparkle Divine’, Thalictrum delavayi ‘Hewitt’s Double’
46. Same
47. Same, with Lobelia removed
48. Rheum ‘Ace of Hearts’, Philadelphus coronarius ‘Aureus’, Iris foetidissima
49. Same, with Rheum removed
50. Heronswood Back Gardens, Quercus robur ‘Concordia’, et al
51. Same, Quercus removed
52. Inanimate object used to punctuate; jar with Hosta, Hakonechloa and Arundinaria, Valerie Murray garden, Victoria
53. Heronswod, Persicaria ‘Compton’s Form’, Hemerocallis ‘Milk Chocolate’,. Carex comans, Cryptotania japonica ‘Atropurpurea’
54. Glass, Sonny Garcia, San Francisco
55. Glass, Marcia Donahue, Berkeley
56. Repetition; Xerophyllum tenax
57. Jack Lenor Larsen, painted cedar posts
58. Same
59. Repetition of color; Iris pallida ‘Variegata’, Cornus stolonifera ‘Ivory Halo’,Eupatorium formosanum, Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Aurea Gracilis’
60. Same, Iris pallida removed
61. Agave americana, Veronica spicata ‘Pink Damask’, Lilium ‘Tom Pouce’
62. Same, Agave removed
63. Blue Border, Heronswood, Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’
64. Same, Hakonechloa removed
65. Perennial Borders, Stachys byzantina as repetitive element
66. Borders removed
67. Conclusion