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Plant/Shrub/ Tree recommendation for tall water feature

lukemcenenylukemceneny Posts: 4
in Garden design
Hi,

I am new to the forum and would love some help from you all. I have scoured and bothered my local garden centres as best I can during these times but have yet to find a solution.

We have a waterfall feature in the corner of a long raised bed. Its approx 1m tall. We have a fairly drab evergreen behind it but would like something with a little more character and colour to help add to the feature and border. 2 - 2.5 meters max in height. Hopefully there is a picture attached for you all to see.

The rest of the bed has a nice mix of tall flowering evergreens, flowering perennials and bedding plants.

Any recommendation will be hugely appreciated by all the family.

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I would put up trellis on either side, and grow some fairly short clematis up it.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited May 2020
    A more upright form of Japanese maple would look nice (you'd want to move the feature forward a bit), with some Hakonechloa grass around the base of the feature. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • lukemcenenylukemceneny Posts: 4
    Thank you. I have been looking at some of the Japanese Maples. I will dig into them a little more.

    I worry about the clematis not getting enough light behing the feature to kick start it??
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "I worry about the clematis not getting enough light behing the feature to kick start it??"

    You're worried about clems being too shaded? There are some that love shade. You would want there to be enough space for an acer. It's not a deep planter and it doesn't look like there's much depth behind the water feature - could you move it futher forward easily?

    How old is the water feature? If new, I would use the feature for the summer or a year before choosing planting to match it. It might well turn out to work out differently than you imagine.
  • lukemcenenylukemceneny Posts: 4
    Thanks, it is fairly new, couple of years. It can be moved forward and is fairly deep (our garden was raised), we have several treee growing quite well along the border, but I do take your point about the space behind to grow a tree. I quite like how the current tree's branches interact with the feature and would like something else to do some of the same. I guess you could train the clematis to grow towards the feature too
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Am guessing its quite shading because of the heuchera and fern, dwarf rhododendron or acer or bamboo in a pot, on top of "something" to add height behind the water feature, go all Zen
  • lukemcenenylukemceneny Posts: 4
    Thanks, I'll look into those. It gets sun first thing until around midday
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