Specialty Gardening: Planting Question, 1 by Pagancat

Pagancat wrote:
One thing that really bugs me is when people over-plant, when they *know* the plants are going to be bigger (particularly shrubs) and when they get so big that they begin crowd each other. Then the owner goes in and chops a pefectly nicely shaped plant into boxes or weird poodle shapes... grrrrr..... I saw it a ton in the Southwest, but still some here.

On the other hand, it takes a loooonnng time for things to fill in. So I've been thinking, if instead of putting things in a bed in a straight line (that's an exaggeration of course, never seen a cottage garden do much in a line, lol) but take things and stagger them in such a way that from in front it would look more filled in but still give plants room to grow up and out...

Kinda like this (birdseye)