Posted by Sunset, August 29, 2011 in Hardscape
, Ornamentals
By Jim McCausland, Sunset Magazine
Photos by Janet Loughrey
On the early summer ANLD garden tour in Portland, I couldn't help but notice how much fun Courtney Downing (Green Artisans) had designing curves into one of her gardens. In the gravel walkway below, curves are exaggerated in a way that draw you down the garden path.
In the rear garden, Downing gives you a doubly curvaceous border of golden bamboo: the whole planting snakes along a gently curving border, while individual culms arch out over the lawn.
On the return walk down the other side of the garden, a lovely stone staircase swings you down into a lower patio. It's much more interesting that a right-angle staircase would have been.
