@JAYJARDIN Spatial awareness in a garden is a real skill. When buying plants the size given is only a guide. Growing conditions play a big part. Perhaps that is why you have things in the wrong places. If you can form a strong skeletal shape throughout the garden with evergreens, deciduous shrubs with interesting shapes, perhaps some grasses that stand all winter.That will give a good start. All the small precious plants that you have grown from cuttings will fill the gaps. Hopefully you can take a break from it all for now not exactly gardening weather today. I would take some photos before and after it really helps you see where you have got to and what you have achieved!
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I agree, it is hard to place plants in the right position and perhaps the first owner of this house thought they had it right, they certainly had some interesting plants but 12 years later and 3 more owners who did not garden have made the garden quite a shambles. It does have some structure as there are several trees and lots of grasses and I will work hard to try and get it right with anything new I add in the Spring! I have already taken the ' before' photos of both house and garden!
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If you can form a strong skeletal shape throughout the garden with evergreens, deciduous shrubs with interesting shapes, perhaps some grasses that stand all winter.That will give a good start. All the small precious plants that you have grown from cuttings will fill the gaps.
Hopefully you can take a break from it all for now not exactly gardening weather today.
I would take some photos before and after it really helps you see where you have got to and what you have achieved!
It does have some structure as there are several trees and lots of grasses and I will work hard to try and get it right with anything new I add in the Spring! I have already taken the ' before' photos of both house and garden!