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Plant Form and Texture: Tame Rock Gardens

Rock Garden With Continuity in Texture

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Unlike the rock garden in the prior photo, the rock garden shown here does not strive for contrast in textures....
These rock garden plants keep to a similar texture.

These rock garden plants keep to a similar texture.

David Beaulieu

To begin with, the two rock gardens in question are very different entities. That in the prior photo is a hillside rock garden, wild and tempestuous. The setting for the rock garden above is much tamer: it is a display area at a garden center.

But beyond this fundamental distinction, note how differently texture is used -- and to what effect. In the photo above, plant selection was made with an eye to continuity in texture. It's almost two-dimensional, a perception aided by the short heights of the plants.

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