Thrillers, fillers, and spillers

By Mick Vann

Most of us struggle as designers… and when faced with a terra cotta pot or half a whiskey barrel by the front door to fill with plants, for me there’s quite a lot of guesswork involved.

Luckily over the past few years a design secret has been leaking out into popular garden magazines, giving us non-designers a useful handle: ‘thriller, filler, spiller.’  It rhymes, it’s easy to remember… and it works like this.