ShareThisGarden advice from John and Sone Durnan:-- Draw out your plans for the garden, John says. Seeing it on paper often lets you see whether a design will work. "I draw it out for both of us and we can see if that's how it should be."-- If there's a feature or plant in the garden you want visitors to stop and see or admire, put the pavers on the pathway closer together. This causes people to take smaller steps and slow down.-- "We've all been programmed to put shortest plants in front, medium-size ones in the middle and tallest ones at the back," John says. But in Asian-style gardening, they often put the taller ones near the middle and smaller plants in back to create an illusion of depth. "It's like looking at a very distant tree, but it might just be a dwarf Alberta spruce that looks like a big tree from far away," he says.-- Walk through your garden every day, says Sone, and look at the plants. Learn what to look for. That way you'll know when one is wilting, or getting burned from too much sun or too leggy from too much shade.(Contact Pat Rubin at prubin(at)sacbee.com.)(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)
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