• Find a plant that has motion.
• Find the plants with black leaves. How do they go with what is near them?
• Find an example of related color harmony.
• Find an example of complementary color harmony.
• What plant is the smallest (not counting seedlings)? What plant do you find gets in the way the worst?
• What plant do you find that seems to be doing least well?
• How many pieces of garden sculpture can you find?
• Find two examples of (almost) formal balance.
• What elements of this garden have humor?
• Find an example of rhythm.
• Identify a theme or other unifying factor of a bed.

Design Questions

• What draws your attention?
• What plants do you like & dislike (and what one plant is your favorite)? What parts of the garden work and which ones don't hang together?
• What would you change & why? Of the things you'd change, what bothers you the worst; what would you start with?
• Find a spot that needs something, and either
• propose a plant for it, and say why
• or describe the characteristics of a hypothetical plant you think would go well there.

10 December 1998