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I love Parterre gardens and have the space to finally have one. But so many people have said they are very labor intensive. I cannot understand this as there is no mulch only pea gravel and the trimming should be easy... like a buzz cut, one hair out of place, whack it off!
I love Parterre gardens and have the space to finally have one. But so many people have said they are very labor intensive. I cannot understand this as there is no mulch only pea gravel and the trimming should be easy... like a buzz cut, one hair out of place, whack it off!
Any thoughts? Any one have a knot garden?
To correctly prune a knot garden takes time. Buzz cutting is not always the way, and a lot of it is don't by hand (without a machine). If you have the time however, go for it. What are you creating your knot garden with? Boxwoods?
It is a lot of work. I was shocked at how much work it was to keep it manicured. If it isn't kept pristine, it looks scraggly and loses all appeal. But if it's a labor of love and you don't mind clipping and pruning and edging, go for it! They are beautiful.
But I found out the hard way that gardeners aren't interested in maintaining them and will butcher them if forced to do it.
I've also seen very successful "loose" parterre gardens where walkways and paths provide the clean edges and what's growing in the beds is a bit wilder.
If you thumb through garden magazines and books you can see how many ways you can do it.
I've never had one, but I spent a summer in Colorado working on one.
It was kinda cool: It was a Shakespeare garden; all of its plants were herbs or flowers mentioned in Will's plays.
To me, the tricky part was making sure the garden was watered evenly.
One of the lavender plants was always scrawnier than the rest, making the "knot" look a bit off.
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