The goal is to create a framework for the overall designed landscape that has an aesthetic and ecological relationship to our indigenous landscape through the use of native plants in their natural associations.
This does not mean, however, that we must design exclusively with native plants, attempt to copy nature exactly, or exclude the influences of other design styles. Understanding this order and using it in our designs is the key to making natural design workable and successful. Too often, random informality passes for “natural,” when in reality nature is highly ordered and anything but random. But their successful incorporation requires a basic understanding of how native plants operate in nature. The basic concept behind natural design, however, is fairly simple-to incorporate native plant communities into the designed landscape. And advocates of natural design are not necessarily eager to banish a host of beautiful exotics from the plant palettes of American landscape designers, replacing the plants with a motley crew of straggly natives. A landscape with curved bed lines, informal plant arrangements and no pyramidal yews does not always qualify as a natural landscape. The elements that make a landscape design “natural” are difficult to define. Republished in Connecticut Horticultural Society Newsletter, February 2010.)
Photos by Larry Weaner unless indicated otherwise. By Larry Weaner (Originally published in American Nurseryman, Jan.
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