Plant Gardens 101

A kind of interesting symmetry of words. Why would anyone have the desire to build a garden made of knots? Of course if you have ever read,seen or heard aboutKnotGardens then this little introduction was lost on the informed ones.

Old things are sometimes good things. Sometimes they go away but quite often they come back stronger than the original time. This is certainly true in the case of what is called a knot garden. The idea of a knot garden came about in the Tudor reign ofEngland and progressed through the Elizabethan age with knot gardens constructed to copy the beautiful embroidery work associated with the English period. (more…)

A formal garden bed of small compact shrubs or herbs, planted in an intricate, intertwining pattern and kept neat by frequent shearing.