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The World Vision Garden

Designer Sim Flemons has included many features in his garden that will easily transfer into your garden.

“Walking a labyrinth gives one the opportunity to slow down and reflect...”

  • Meditate a while

    Meditate a while

    The seating/paths are actually designed as a labyrinth, which in a garden is a path that leads you on a circular path to the centre and then out again. Unlike a maze there’s no puzzle to solve so there are no directional choices. Walking a labyrinth gives one the opportunity to slow down and reflect – a meditative process. Labyrinths can take the form of any sort of path, stepping stones for instance, or simply mow a path through the lawn.

  • Reflect on your garden

    Reflect on your garden

    You have to look really hard to see them, but we’ve set reflective perspex around the base of the boundaries. Hanging mirrors in the garden can create more depth by disguising walls and giving the feeling that the garden extends beyond. Place behind a gate or trellis to really fool the eye. A tip is not to hang them straight on to where viewers will see them, or they will get a lovely reflection of themselves which rather defeats the object!

  • Get a tree fern

    Get a tree fern

    We have three types in the garden, one of which is the popular Dicksonia antartica. The tall ones are Dicksonia squarrosa and they add height to the garden, as well as having more slender trunks. This tree fern can be kept outside in warmer parts of the country, but consider overwintering it under cover if temperatures regularly fall below -4°. D. squarrosa likes to be in filtered sunlight, loose well-drained soil with lots of organic matter and plenty of water.

  • Orange adds zing

    Orange adds zing

    Orange is a great colour for teaming up with blue, purple, red, yellow and even black. The only colour I would be shy of mixing it with is pink. This does depend on the shade of the colours in question but, this year orange is hot so take the plunge. We’ve used Geum 'Borisii' in the garden as it matches the World Vision logo exactly.

  • Capture the sky

    Capture the sky

    Although the ripple effect is rather tricky and expensive to replicate, using black dye in a pond provides an opaque body of water that reflects the garden really well. Seeing clouds and trees in the surface of the pool adds another dimension to the garden.  The black dye can be bought in garden centres and has the added bonus of being an algae inhibitor.

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