Container Gardens · 2026

A Small Garden Without Borders in Marousi, 1.5 Years Later

Landscape design

This garden grows under our design supervision; we visit it three times a year to shape the shrubs and the hedge.

We shaped the hedge in this garden from a shapeless, shaggy, and giant-sized form into a low, compact one with a rounded top, to make it easier to control and to ensure it is well-exposed to the sun.

We left several tall shrubs within it and are shaping them into small clipped trees to break the line of the hedge, preventing it from feeling like a fence.

Further inside the garden, we planted low-maintenance shrubs that we do not plan to shape rigidly; instead, we will leave them natural, but with controlled dimensions and enhanced branching.

This garden is a long strip of land along the northern side of the house, bordered by a hedge; to blur the boundaries and visually expand the garden, we interrupted the hedge with several trees, while a community of shrubs of various shapes and sizes inside the garden optically adds depth to the plantings.

A small area, sunny for most of the day and with a thin layer of soil, represents a piece of a meadow community of Oriental pennisetum, lavender, gaura, and salvia.

The owner of the garden had many echeverias grown in ceramic containers. We broke the bottoms of the containers and integrated them into a small rock garden, sheltered by the meadow planting so that the echeverias would not burn in the summer sun.

(The garden will align with its design concept only under the guidance of an observant person who knows what they want to achieve in the end and has a plan for working with the plants in this garden.)