Also, matching baskets can serve as storage for tools, bulbs and seeds as well as functional trugs for carrying supplies out to the beds and for carrying produce and cut blooms to the house.
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Long bands of concrete that alternate with gravel form the floor of this entry garden. There's a lot of dynamic energy in this space, as repeating bands of different textures (smooth concrete and fine-grade gravel) invoke the idea of rhythm.
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A sequence of plants and architecture is visually pleasing to the eyes, which read it as a pattern. Here, a maroon, spiky Cordyline plant is aligned with a fence section in a rhythmic repetition that looks contemporary and balanced.
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Even if this design had no color, your eye would still read the various textures, from the long, slender wands of lavender to the threaded blue grass at the base of the Japanese maple tree, with its burgundy, palm-shape leaves. Threadlike golden conifer textures occupy the front of this bed.
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example of using contrasting textures for impact, especially in a small space. The needle-fine blue fescue grasses look soothing as a carpet beneath bold-shaped, red-tinged Kalanchoe, also known as paddle plant.
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texture can be striking when the colors stay the same. Here, a smooth cast-stone paver rests in a bed of pebbles, also in the same concrete hue. The eye will instantly read this pairing as a pleasing texture contrast. The soft feather grass lends a surprising accent.
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