Bedhead is always in trend in the Licata garden
Trend reports are kind of footling in the grand scheme of thing — we can all agree on that . But they can also be interesting , entertaining , or both . Or maybe they just reinforce things we ’d wish to see hap , disregardless if they really do or not . For model , I like to declare that animal print in home design are on the way out whenever I can . Sadly , this is not really true , but I ’m an editor in chief , so I can use my bully pulpit ( to no avail , in this case ) .
For the last decade or so , Garden Media Grouphas been issuing a yearly trend report ; some old age I pay attending to it , other year not so much . I kind of likethis year ’s .
Bedhead is always in style in the Licata garden
There is all the usual poppycock about out-of-door rooms , containers , sustainability , and so on , but two of the tendency enmesh with stuff that is really happening , or should really go on . Like these :
Rebel - hoods : Neighborhood residents are rebelling against and press for the reversal of ordinances . They will mould to transform the neighborhood to the agri - hood .
This is real , at least judging by what ’s happening in Buffalo . We enacted a chicken ordinance a few years back and went through an urban farm battle at about the same time . Now we have urban farms ( including an aquaponic composite ) throughout the metropolis and a fecund accruement of biotic community gardens has been in progress for much retentive . Yet , many of the older ordinances still in place are far too vague and masses with perennial or ( rarer ) vegetable gardens in front of their houses often get harass by neighbors who call the urban center complaint line about “ sess . ” There has been progress , but not enough .
Bed Head Style : Purposefully un - styled outdoor space are the result of advisedly crop within the natural landscape . This casual landscape elan express an effortless personality with an “ anything go ” attitude .
In my sight , this is the manner gardens naturally require to be . If you aspire to the highly manicure space beloved of modernist couturier , you well be out there with the micropruners and pincer every single twenty-four hour period . Though I do n’t be intimate what they have in mind by “ natural landscape painting , ” I do know what purposefully un - styled means , and that ’s often the effective manner to go , particularly when your area is inflicted by boring , biscuit cutter professional “ landscape gardening , ” as so many part are . ( Of course , you ca n’t have boring , cookie - cutter landscaping without clients who say that ’s what they want . ) When citizenry I know ask me whom they should call to “ fix ” their garden , I rarely have a good word to give . Because it just does n’t work out that path . I do n’t think I have the slightest cue about what my natural landscape should be , but I do enjoy planting things I love and watching them grow . So that ’s what I tell other people to do . There ’s my trend .
