Take your garden from the ground up by adding height. With tall, willowy, nodding or upright, flowers or leaf, grasses or bananas, adding height to the garden, adds drama.Tall plants have a place in any garden size. They can dazzle a demure garden, rocket a medium garden and garnish a grandeur garden. Adding height, will have your garden reaching for the sky.
This nice mix of tall perennials and reseeding annuals at the JC Raulston Arboretum includes Dahlia ‘Forncett Furnace’ Monarda ‘Jacob Cline’, Kniphofia uvaria ‘Lola’, Canna ‘Red futurity’, Lilium African Queen Group.
Typically, tall plants are relegated to the back of the border around the perimeter of the property or used in otherwise conventional ways. The use of tall plants need not be limited in this way. There are many reasons to break this basic design tenant, such as adding a tall, see-through plant, like verbena bonarienis (verbena-on-a-stick), in a mixed border or adding a tall plant in the front or middle of the border to serve as punctuation mark.
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The castor bean seeds that you gave me have now given me a huge architectural plant for the front of my stone chimney! It seems to grow more beautiful and taller every day.
Cameron
Cameron, You also perfectly placed you plant!