In gardening, what is cohesion?

We all have some sense of what cohesion in a garden design means. It's about creating a design where all of the elements work together, so that the garden is a single whole rather than a disjointed selection of elements. read more

Cohesion in gardening is a term that deals with the overall design of your garden. It’s making it look as though there is a larger picture and not just a jumble of things thrown together. Planting based by height,color, and plant type doesn’t always create a cohesive garden space. read more

Home » Gardening » Cohesion Cohesion Done repeatedly, you eventually break that soil into dust, so the only thing holding the soil together is cohesion (water clinging to water); take that away and the dust heads east (or wherever the wind is blowing). read more

The garden should also be in harmony with the surrounding landscape and the house to which it belongs. Cohesion can be achieved in many ways, for example, by limiting the number of hard landscaping materials used, by repetition of hard and soft landscaping elements or by repetition of shapes. read more