garden design inspiration and plants recommendations?
Monday, November 30th, 2009 at
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For climbers, I go for either:
Roses as these can flower for quite a time during the summer.
Passion flower, these come in all different colours and in the autumn have lovely orange fruits [don't eat them!]
Clematis, these too come in all sorts of different flowers and colours.
Put black and/or green bamboo in tubs [ this spreads quite quickly] as an alternative to grasses.
And for a mass of colour all year round why not plant bulbs that flower in the different seasons. Bulbs you can leave in the ground to naturalise, so it’s less work for you. Why not add a water feature or a sundial too.
Happy gardening
Be sure to test your soil first or you’ll risk all the hard work. Tasha Tudor has really good designs with all the items you listed. Do you like the English Cottage Garden look? Even grasses need watering to establish, and if it doesn’t rain.
PLEASE ENTER WHAT ZONE YOU’RE IN, and any microclimates, soil type, etc. If you don’t know these, ask that question too.
Neighbourhood yards and your local garden centre are probably your best bet for what grows well in your area and how it will look.
Good Growing
Check out the website below for Dutch Gardens. You can give it search criteria such as sun, water, soil, etc and even what color flowers you want and it will give you matches.
agaves are perfect for you.
if you live in an area with snow Parrys agave is the most hardy one for you cold hardy to -20 degrees F
here is a photo of one
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/95340/
needs no water at all and is attractive all year.
another thing to try is palm trees. if you live in a cold enviorment with lots of snow the needle palm is best. this is also cold hardy to-20 F and grows well in all 50 of the us states including southern alaska. they need no protection at
-10 degrees and doesnt even get damaged till well below 0 degrees F.
some climbers
trumpet vine.
doesnt look good all year, but puts out quite a show in the summer. it is a perrenial as long as you dont live where it is colder than -5 degrees F. it will die to the groung and come up in the spring. needs some water though
i would put daizy’s,
they come in all colors.
butterfly bushes, white
and purple. i would buy
wood chips and lay them around my flowers
so i don’t have to weed that often. the chips would absorb water for
your plants.
hope you like my
little garden.
laney