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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Jill Morgan

If you're looking for maximalist drama in your yard, these 9 giant plants will give you instant living sculptures

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Upping the scale and including some giant plants in your yard is a great way to boost impact and interest. A trick long practiced by professional landscape designers, using towering, wide plants is a great way to expand your available growing space, effortlessly link your planting with the wider landscape and generally bring a real pro flourish to your outside space.

Besides making sound garden design sense, incorporating giant plants into your yard is a definite current trend. A logical extension of the recent interior decor trend for maximalism, this large scale, high drama, ramped up look is now permeating into our gardens, with supersized plants and full-on flower power.

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