Minding the gaps
But using my FutureVision skills to keep me from doing anything rash.
My first mistake (thankfully non-fatal) in planning this garden was envisioning it from the wrong angle — or rather, from no angle at all. A thing about me, which you’ve either noticed or soon will, is I think in photos and I love a straight shot. So when the neighbors’ white fence went up last summer and I began dreaming about what I’d plant in front of it, I stood out in the grass and took a straight shot of the back fence line, went inside and started sketching from it. In my defense, I also did some aerial planning (as seen, mid-progress, in the intro), but in my design mind the back hedgerow was planar and viewed from the middle of the grass, which is not at all how it’s actually experienced. In reality, this is the back corner of the property and it’s not only not a 2-dimensional situation (obvs), it is experienced almost entirely from an angle or even from off to the side of this hedgerow, if you’re in the carporch.
At that angle, or almost any actual angle from which you’d see them, the two evergreens in the center of the straight sketches (below) line up in such a way that the one all but disappears behind the other, which you can see best in the photo further down.
