Terri will tell you that I really enjoy a particular view from the pub set at the back of our property. I like it because of the flowing depth of plants and color… it looks like one big, cascading bed. That is an illusion of the design layout ! There are actually four beds in this view. One mass planting would have been hard to implement, manage, and move through.

Here is a top down view of the area from a Google Earth image. The line of sight in the photo passes through these four beds from the pub set at the bottom.

Here are a couple of photos on the ground showing the line of sight and how the beds are spaced.

When we created these four beds, we were mainly thinking about the flowing lines of their edges from these perspectives. Without realizing it, we created a complementary line of sight for experiencing a sense of depth at the same time. We’ll be mindful of this design tip in the future!