subject: Landscaping Designs Depicts Personality [print this page] I started this line of observation about ten years ago, when our neighbors and us were all planting our summer flower gardens one year. They are a wonderful couple, great people, but definitely red, type A personalities. They were planting their flowers in rows using a yard stick and a color pattern to plant all the same kind of flowers in the front with straight rows of another variety behind. Red, white, purple, red, white, purple down the row it went.
I was planting a profusion of color, varieties, heights and styles in my front yard across the street from them. If I accidentally put two of the same flower next to each other or heaven forbid, in a row, I would take one out and plant it elsewhere. I like the look that the flowers, although somewhat organized by height, just sprang forth naturally amid the rocks and bird bath and hidden pieces of pottery I half buried that flowers flow from.
I think I was making my neighbor's nervous, and they were certainly making me nervous. Flowers don't grow anywhere on this green earth naturally in rows. So sterile, so boring so rigid. This was my first observation about flowers and personalities.
I have since taken a hard look at a variety of landscape designs in New York and have noticed this reoccurring theme over and over. There is man who lives in our town, his yard has nothing but incredibly manicured lawn, cut twice on the diagonal two times each week. He snow blows his lawn in the winter time. I have often wondered about this man and what kind of person he is. I was driving with my sister one day when she pointed to the house and announced that the man who lived there was crazy, she had dated his son, it was a sad OCD house with little laughter and joy. Once again, my theory was confirmed.
Whether you hydro seed, lay sod, whether you like water features, rocks, flowers, colored gravel for zero upkeep, a profusion of flowers or neat, orderly residential landscapes, the landscape designs you choose, really do say something about your personality and the orderliness of your life probably. Maybe not scientific but certainly observable.
