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.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
