That paradise garden post I reblogged QUITE A WHILE AGO got me thinking; My actual “dream garden” is probably going to be the most difficult things to pull off in my life, since I am unfortunately a being of many contrasting tastes.

On the one hand I love woodland/meadow native plant landscape, and the cool temperate feeling that it gives to a garden, and the cooling but at the same time beastial spirit one feels in such a place. This is the type of garden I primarily go for since it’s the one I can pull off with not much trouble both when it comes to design as well as plant choices. I often think of the woodlands and the Bruce Peninsula forests when I work with this style.

But on the other hand I LOVE the exotic, tropical, paradise-like landscape as well, the broadleaf bananas, the hot, colourful, burning jungle rainforest feeling. While I have no experience with the style, it has been the type I had lusted for when I first got into the gardening, long before I got into native plants. The idea of the tropical landscape for me was that it was the unattainable, the simulation of the far southern places I will never get to visit in my lifetime. I am aware of plants that could give such a style, but they are few and far between, not to mention expensive and too gigantic in adult size for small gardenscapes (as far as I know).

The wildness make them similar to the each other, but at the same time they’re so different and contrasting. The one is a cool misty fantasy while the latter is a loud fiery roar. A few times my mind has wonder if it was possible to combine the two styles into my own ideallic landscape style that would make the garden become a relaxing yet rugged abode. A gardenscape that breaths of the unattainable South and it’s paradises, but still held the nostalgia of the calm woodlands I so love to stalk in.

^ one of the oldest things stored in my drafts so far….. Gato, this was sweet and all BUT POINTLESS IF YOU CAN’T KEEP MAINTENANCE TO YOUR OWN GARDENS BOI!