Vibrant color is a trademark
of gardens designed by Pamela Richards. The colors can come
from plants, structures or both, but they always infuse
her gardens with energy and interest.
Red featured in her display garden "Enjoy a Spring
Day." The bare red stems of a willow (Salix 'Hakuro
Nishiki') gave a fine impression of fire, while trellises
emphasized the color.
The metal trellises were made by Jim Honold of Home &
Garden Art, and were painted "the purest red he could
find," Richards says.
"She likes things to pop, and to have fun," Honold
says of Richards' designs. A little offbeat and always interesting,
her gardens also show how to deal with the day-to-day aspects
of our lives.
"I knew I was going to have the car," Richards
says of the Subaru parked beside her display, "and
I knew I wanted something between the car and the garden."
Richards chose to disguise the car, not try to hide it completely.
Instead of a solid fence or arborvitae hedge, she used the
red trellises and plants to distract. The colors and forms
of structures and plants brought the landscape to life.
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