Making the garden seem bigger than it is - landscaping tricks learned along the way
I was talking to my neighbour the other day and she said that a visitor had commented on the lychee tree in their back yard. They don't have a lychee tree - we do! Because we grow the same type of plants along our fence lines both of us can use the illusion that our gardens are bigger than they actually are. This large tree and the palm trees are in her garden, but who would know? The heleconias and gingers are a bit overgrown now and are going to have to be cut back to contain them, but I also don't want to lose the illusion of space. Once a heleconia stalk has flowered, it dies, and sends out another stalk. So the ones that have already flowered are taking up use-able real estate. This bed is full of these lovely big red heleconias. The red ginger are way too cramped and overgrown. Here you see them from both sides of the fence. There is a little path that leads just to the back fence, but...