Fill gardens with varied plant forms

An gentle way to make a pleasing composition is to place plants with different growh habits next to each other . Here the rounded form and stiff , upright growth substance abuse of a variegated hydrangea ( Hydrangea macrophylla‘Variegata ’ ) is buffer by the billowing fountain conformation ofMiscanthus sinensis‘Gracillimus ’ in a border at theNew York Botanical Garden .

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