Futuristic Garden: Which Plants to Choose
Not all gardeners want to have grandma's roses, petunias in pots and tulips in flower beds growing on their plot.
If you are eager to turn your property into a garden of the future, then the following tips from the expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh will be of benefit to you.
Plants for a Futuristic Garden
Futuristic plants should be monochrome, different tones of one color, or neutral.
Typical features of such a landscape are simple lines, symmetry and simplicity of form.
The garden of the future must include silvery plants. Grayness (also known as silveriness) can be different: from simple to complex. Plants with gray or silvery leaves can be tactile, like a fluffy snout mill or ram's ear, or they can have mixed shades of gray, giving a feeling of coolness.
Consider miscanthus or carex with their simple, streamlined form – they will add movement to a futuristic garden.
Suitable options can be found among succulents (trachyandra, lithops, etc.). They are easy to care for and boast an abundance of geometric shapes.
Yucca, with its tough, sword-shaped foliage, creates a magnificent combination with succulents and other drought-resistant plants. Blue yucca and banana yucca deserve special attention.
Bamboo also meets the requirements of futurism, creating a natural screen, and its height adds verticality. Agave can also be used as a living sculpture.
Finally, truly otherworldly flowers include agapanthus, kniphofia and canna, while alliums will surely amaze you with their height and ball-shaped flower heads.
For reference
Futurism is an avant-garde art movement of the 1910s and early 1920s, primarily in the poetry and painting of Italy and Russia.
