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Box with Cards and Instructional Phamplet

A few of the 50 Featured Plants in New England Perennials

A few of the 55 Featured Plants in Native Perennials and Native Shrubs

Elizabeth, a licensed Landscape Architect for New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts has developed an original-and effective- design method for gardeners new and experienced alike. With a shuffling of these easy to grasp plant cards, Elizabeth will show you how to deal yourself a dream garden! Using artist’s skill in assembling colors that work well together in the garden- each card is “color boxed” with squares of color companions for plant ideas that would be a perfect match. The final choices are custom tailored by you --using guidance offered or a flagrant crossing of the rules! Each of you will have unique ideas! All plant selections are field tested and curated by Elizabeth, Master of Landscape Architecture, to be a reliable performer. Colorblock Garden Design Cards includes one box of 150 business- card- size plant cards featuring 50 field tested perennials. Three copies of each plant are offered to facilitate complete garden planning.

Elizabeth, a licensed Landscape Architect for New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts has developed an original-and effective- design method for gardeners new and experienced alike. With a shuffling of these easy to grasp plant cards, Elizabeth will show you how to deal yourself a dream garden! Using artist’s skill in assembling colors that work well together in the garden- each card is “color boxed” with squares of color companions for plant ideas that would be a perfect match. The final choices are custom tailored by you using guidance offered or a flagrant crossing of the rules! Each of you will have unique ideas!

All plant selections are field tested and curated by Elizabeth, Master of Landscape Architecture, to be a reliable performer.

Colorblock Garden Design Cards (New England Perennials: Zones 3-8) includes one box of 150 business card- size plant cards featuring 50 field tested perennials. Three copies of each plant are offered to facilitate complete garden planning.

Native Plants Colorblock Garden Design Cards (Native Perennials and Native Shrubs: Zones 2-9) includes 165 Native Plant cards inside. 55 hardy plants for Sun, Shade and Part Shade. 25 Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs and 30 Perennials. 3 cards of each plant with easy to follow instructions so you can plan complete gardens!

How to Design your Unique Garden on your table top using ColorBlock Garden Design Cards

Step 1. Where is your garden-Sun, Shade, Part Shade? Or perhaps your selected spot wraps around to include all three exposures? No matter -you can place adjacent plant cards to reflect the changing conditions.

Step 2 .Get an approximate space measurement in terms of width and length of your proposed garden. All of the information you need to fit your garden space is on your cards along with more details such as soil preferences.

Step 3. Find some plants that appeal to you and meet your sunlight requirements. Check the Colorboxes on the cards to find companion plant colors that make the collection sing!

Step 4. Arrange the plants in rows in order from front to back according to to their respective heights. Choose the numbers you need to fill your allotted space. Place the wider plants further apart to reflect accurate spacing. Each card has generalized size labels -Front-Middle-Back- in addition to width and height in Feet and Inches.

Step 5. Take a snapshot to record your plan and go find your plants!

Step 1. Where is your garden-Sun, Shade, Part Shade? Or perhaps your selected spot wraps around to include all three exposures? No matter -you can place adjacent plant cards to reflect the changing conditions.

Step 2 .Get an approximate space measurement in terms of width and length of your proposed garden. All of the information you need to fit your garden space is on your cards along with more details such as soil preferences.

Step 3. Find some plants that appeal to you and meet your sunlight requirements. Check the Colorboxes on the cards to find companion plant colors that make the collection sing!

Step 4. Arrange the plants in rows in order from front to back according to to their respective heights. Choose the numbers you need to fill your allotted space. Place the wider plants further apart to reflect accurate spacing. Each card has generalized size labels -Front-Middle-Back- in addition to width and height in Feet and Inches.

Step 5. Take a snapshot to record your plan and go find your plants!

Example of Easy way to Design a flower garden using the Sun Garden model shown in the Pamphlet included in each box of ColorBlock Garden Design Cards

These flowers are Colorboxed to work together and are also selected to perform best in a sunny garden. Begin with a selected card for Blazing Star -a native that supports many pollinators. Included in each card set is an explanatory leaflet that explains how to use the cards. Each card contains all the detailed information you need for creating a successful long lasting garden. This section shows how the cards can be arranged to design a certain measured space-here in the sample- a garden width of 8-9 feet across and 7-8 feet deep.In the first row-the shorter plants-are Short 'n Sassy Sneezeweed and Valerie Finnis Wormwood. In the second row, Baja Daylily and Blazing Star. In the third row, the tallest flower of the group, Cutleaf Coneflower.

Here you find an explanation of all of the information included on each card. And, you are given a model of how to layout the cards using the Colorblock design method.

Below see the photorealistic model of another sample garden. This sun garden uses the plants featured on the cover of the ColorBlock Garden Design Cards: English Lavender, Butterfly Weed and Beebalm.

Select an area in front of a fence that you would like to use to frame a sun garden. Choose these 3 flowering perennials tat are Colorboxed to be winners! It's that simple...

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150 plant cards inside.

50 hardy plants for Sun, Shade and Part Shade.

3 cards of each plant with easy to follow instructions so you can plan complete gardens!

This Island Garden in the sun features Orange Avens, White Swan Coneflower, Dusky Challenger German Iris and Carolina Lupine.

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Shade gardens are often just as colorful and dramatic. Here is an example of a beautiful garden possible near a shade tree using durable, easy to grow and easy to find plants. Selected plants are: Fanal Red Astilbe, Variegated Solomon's Seal, Bottle Rocket Ligularia and Ostrich Fern.

Shade gardens can be just as colorful and dramatic. Here is an example of a beautiful garden possible near a shade tree using durable, easy to grow and easy to find plants. Selected plants are: Fanal Red Astilbe, Variegated Solomon's Seal, Bottle Rocket Ligularia and Ostrich Fern.

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FOURTH ROW

Shown below are a few more of the many included Shade Plants that deliver again again...

Reviews

“I love the spirit and enthusiasm Elizabeth brings to her workshops. She does a wonderful job of instructing her students on how to use the ColorBlock Garden Design Cards. I would definitely recommend purchasing these cards as an aid for help designing your garden. The visual impact of seeing the image of each flower card and laying them out based on the description of each card. Easy instructions to follow so I was able to design and plan my garden!”

Mary Liz Lancaster

“I found Elizabeth Dudley’s plant cards to be a fabulous way to lay out potential designs. They had just enough information on them to help me visualize where to place each plant according to the amount of sun it needed and its height and growth width, without being too overwhelming!

I would highly recommend them to anybody trying to get a better understanding of where to place plants and flowers in their yard!“

Laura Cassinari King