Edible and elegant
Filed Under (Questions) by on 18-08-2009
The design of Karen Rogers at the Royal Horticultural Society´s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in London was created to demonstrate that a garden can be both edible and elegant. The garden was a wood-burning stove, around which sat box topiary and raised beds of blue-grey-painted wood that were filled with a mixture of flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Flowers such as roses, echinops and sedum grew among good-looking vegetables and herbs sucha as fennel, round-headed leeks, cabbages…
In these eco-friendly and health-conscious times, plucking food from the backyard instead of buying greens that have been flown in from another continent can help your bodies…and the planet.
There is no reason why vegetables cannot be attractive. Either we mix them with non-edible beautiful plants or we use attractive edibles.
In most countries, the ornate kitchen gardens of the past gave way to unattractive rows of vegetables. In recent decades designers have begun to think differently.
Vegetables can be grown in more formats than we might imagine and it is an exiting design prospect to want them as the backbone of the main garden.
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