Coastal inspiration – salt marsh (2)

I spent some time studying estuarine salt marshes as part of the inspiration for a university project last year, so it was amazing to have the chance to visit these marshes along the north coast of Cape Cod this summer.  On a calm late summer day, this is a landscape of great visual subtlety which offers inspiration to the designer in search of simplicity, beauty and harmony in landscape planting.

These dynamic ecosystems are under threat around the world, and only recently are we rediscovering how important they are not only for plants and animals but for the people who inhabit coastal regions too.

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