Knot Gardens
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Traditional boxwood knot gardens can tax the patience of their creators, taking years to fill in properly. Not so a basil knot, for which the wait is measures in weeks, not year.
Knot garden design may be as old as the hills, but its geometric patterns and romantic allure make this style a great inspiration for today's home gardener.
KNOT GARDEN - A very carefully planned garden of small dwarf shrubs or even herbs. Planned in a pattern and kept in order by constant pruning and trimming.
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knot garden A formal garden in which two or more kinds of plants with different-colored foliage, often herbs, are planted and pruned so they interweave and form a knot pattern.
A KNOT GARDEN Pam's knot garden uses plenty of Lavandula x intermedia 'Grosso'. "It makes great hedges," she says. "It's so fragrant, and the bees go crazy. I'll get two cuttings out of it."
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Herbal Knot Garden Design
The "knot" in Celtic knot gardens usually comes from the knotting of the garden paths. A very simple version of this is shown in this diagram.
Herbal Knot Garden
Not as hard as it looks, knot gardens add a wonderful structure and formality to herb gardening.
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Knot gardens, after the fashion of those created in England during Elizabethan times,
can be made with herbs. Cotton Lavender or Hyssop can be used to provide low
scrolled hedges, filled in between with coloured gravels, or low-growing herbs.
Design Knot Gardens
...pruning to develop into the desired design. Plant knot garden plants closely together in a.
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To attract bluebirds in a garden, provide them with birdhouses to raise their young, bird.
knocking out - The temporary removal of a plant from its pot in order to check the condition of the root ball.
knot garden - An elaborately designed garden consisting of flowers, herbs and/or low shrubs arranged in intricate, ...
This symmetrical knot garden plan will add formal flair to any landscape.
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The idea derives from the older ideas of knot gardens and parterres. At the end of the nineteenth century 'carpet bedding' became a term of abuse for annual displays of plants, but it remains popular in show gardens and public parks.
The combined planting of the knot garden using Cotton lavender Santolina chamaecyparissus, which grows quickly, needs constant pruning back to the same level of the Syzygium 'Tiny Trev'.
Formal design elements: The intricate knot garden is still a beautiful way to grow herbs, but today most home gardeners find the heavy maintenance required to keep it weeded, pruned and looking good too formidable and time-consuming.
Low growing hedges used for parterres, knot gardens or as borders around vegetable beds can be kept neat by trimming twice a year.
Cut box, rosemary, lonicera, lavender and germander in spring and then in mid-summer.
There are many different potager designs Some favor the style of knot gardens or designs that repeat a certain pattern or a symmetrical shape.
Under gardens of particular styles are: rock garden, Chinese garden, Japanese garden, English garden, French formal garden, Italian garden, Knot garden, terrarium, Bonsai, tropical garden, Zen garden and even Xeriscaping (water-wise landscaping), ...
The knot garden is especially intriguing; herbs with various textures and colors are planted carefully and trimmed neatly to create the appearance of ropes looping over and under each other.
gardens, Elizabethan knot gardens, Shaker Gardens and English cottage gardens, lavenders and roses have always had an important role.
Elements of an English Knot Garden
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History Used in Tudor knot gardens. Historically used in food and medicine.
Growing pattern Perennial.
 See also: Plant, Flower, Planting, Hedge, Growing
  
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