MGD

Raised elements don’t have to detract from the visual appeal of the garden.

These planters are built from coated profiled metal cladding and capped and cornered with teak. Filled with loose compost they will provide enjoyment regardless of where the participant lies on the age spectrum.

It’s a good example of an element we would traditionally have regarded as some sort of compromise or inconvenience that is in fact a solid example of a feature with multi generational appeal .

Here is a clever raised planter and cloche combined. The front cover is retractable and there is also a door to a passage within the structure itself to provide shelter, and access to the back of the bed.

This particular unit was put together by a group of students in Oregon State University and bears the title “The Planter To Use If You Have Bad Soil”, to which you could quite rightly add “And/Or a Bad Back”. This one is quite shabby and is not something you would be prepared to look at in the corner of your garden but a more robust, better detailed, future proofed version of it, why not?

Again, the point here is that, in examining any of these types of features, we inevitably also consider Multi Generational Design, appeal and applicability across the age spectrum.

It happens involuntarily, we are starting to link the two. And that’s a good thing.