Framing a Pond

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Framing a Pond

• From Plan to Plant

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Landscape Design

• Focal Points and Shapes

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Designing around a pond

• Your pond will have special considerations not
  found in a regular garden design
• Plants should be suited for your design purposes
• Start with focal points first and frame in and
  around them

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Focal Points

• While many people use large plants as focal
  points, this is not the necessity.
• You may use mid sized or even smaller plants if
  they are framed correctly
• Non plant focal points are also very common and
  can include
• Bird feeder / bird bath
• Statuary
• Drift Wood
• Stumps
• Benches

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Focal Points

• Picking your focal points is very important.
• Some basic rules are
• Plan focal points first
• Create zones and pick 1 focal point per zone
• The focal point should achieve a particular goal
• Draw the eye upwards or downwards
• Maintain a particular feel to the area
• Add a particular special interest
• Dont overcrowd with focal points, this is
  counter productive

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Plant Forms

• Some forms you should be looking at within your
  design are
• Upright plants to draw the eye towards a specific
  spot
• Weeping plants to keep the eye focuses in certain
  lower areas, they draw attention down
• Mid sized shrubs, evergreens and perennials that
  will frame your focal points
• Creeping ground covers to soften the lines of
  rocks, walls and pond edges
• Accent plants to add colour and focus to certain
  areas

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Upright plants

• Some upright plants that will work well for focal
  points around a pond include
• Upright junipers
• Blue Arrow
• Blue Moffat
• Spartan
• Upright columnar Spruce
• Cedars
• Emerald
• Yellow Ribbon

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Upright Plants

• Purple Leaf Sandcherry
• Dwarf Burning Bush
• Mockorange
• Minnesota Dwarf
• Columnar Oak (for VERY large areas in the back
  ground, they grow up to 40 tall, are meant as a
  backdrop only)

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Weeping Plants

• Some weeping plants that can work well around a
  pond include
• Japanese maples
• Bloodgood
• Crimson Queen
• Inabe Shidare
• Tiger Eye Sumac
• Lace Leaf Elder
• Gold Mop False Cypress
• Weeping Larch
• Weeping Mulberry
• Weeping Caragana

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Mid sized Framing plants

• Around the focal points, framing plants should be
  used to help create a theme and a form of unity
• Framing plants should be planted in groups that
  make the entire set of plants look cohesive

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Mid Sized Framing Plants

• Some basic guides to using framing plants
• Grouping. Plants should be planted so that they
  grow slightly into a grouping and not to be seen
  as unique singles
• Rule of 3. Small number groupings should be odd
  numbers such as 3 or 5 instead of 2, 4 or 6.
• Gradation. Plants should be planted so that
  their heights work in unity together to bring the
  eye where we want it to go

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Mid Sized Framing Plants

• Some good choices of mid sized framing plants are
• Spirea
• Shirobana
• Snowmound
• Goldflame
• Weigela
• Wine and Roses
• Midnight Wine
• Yew
• Dense
• Browns

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Mid Sized Framing Plants

• Willow
• Hakuro Nishiki Dappled Willow
• Flamingo Dappled Willow
• Hydrangea
• Cityline series
• Endless summer series
• Lilac
• Miss Kim Dwarf Lilac
• Dwarf Korean Lilac
• Burning Bush

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Mid Sized Framing Plants

• Junipers
• Mint Julep
• Compact Andorra
• Old gold
• Gold Star
• Pines
• Muhgo Pine
• Pumillo Muhgo Pine

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Creeping Ground Covers

• Ground covers do not have to be small perennials
  and may include various types of shrubs and
  evergreens
• These plants help to soften the edges of the pond
  and the garden design as well
• Use the plants to not only soften the design but
  also to add dimension by having them fall over
  rocks and structures within the garden

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Creeping Ground Covers

• Some creeping ground covers include
• Lysmachia Creeping Jenny
• Coreopsis Tickseed
• Cerastium Snow in Summer
• Pachysandra Spurge
• Sedum
• Voodoo
• Blue Spruce
• Dragons Bood

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Creeping Ground Covers

• Euonymus
• Coloratus
• Cotoneaster
• Coral Beauty
• Stephanandra
• Juniper
• Japanese Garden Juniper
• Blue Rug Juniper

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Accent Plants

• Accent plants are important for adding a greater
  dimension to your garden
• Perennials are excellent for adding colour and
  texture

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Accent Plants

• Some examples of accent plants are
• Aquilegia Columbine
• Aruncus Dioicus Goats Beard
• Astilbe x arendsii False Spirea
• Athyrium Ghost Ghost Fern
• Brunnera Bugloss
• Calamagrostis Karl Foerster
• Cimicifuga Bugbane
• Echinacea Coneflower
• Gaillardia Blanket flower

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Accent Plants

• Heuchera Coral Bells
• Liatris Blazing Star
• Miscanthus Flame Grass
• Hemerocallis Daylily
• Rudbeckia Black Eyed Susan
• Salvia Blue Sage
• Tiarella - Foamflower

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KEY DESIGN PRINCIPLES

• Order
• Symmetry the garden is repeated along a centre
  line
• Formal garden style
• Very mathematical
• Asymmetry the garden has a balance not derived
  from repetition on a centre line
• Less formal garden design
• More of a feel than by equation
• Massing Grouping the elements of the garden
  together.
• Maintains the order of the garden

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KEY DESIGN PRINCIPLES

• Unity
• Repetition repeating various elements of your
  garden
• Colour
• Texture
• Shape.
• Interconnection tying the garden together
  through use of lines
• Curvilinear
• Rectangular

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KEY DESIGN PRINCIPLES

• Unity
• Rule of 3 small groups of plants should be in
  odd numbers
• Plant in 3s or 5s instead of 2s, 4s or 6s
• When plants are in even numbers our eyes separate
  them into smaller groups
• Plants in odd numbers cannot be separated into 2
  equal smaller groups