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Front garden gravel design ideas ( low maintenance , UK )

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  • I see. yes the big planters are very expensive. I may just plant directly in soil by removing gravel from edges. 

    yes tree location by @JennyJ is perfect. Just need to find the right tree to plant :)
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's not the best time of year to plant trees, especially where you are with the weather/climate  becoming regularly drier in the coming months, so you'll have to do really good prep, and then be very vigilant with watering until next winter. 
    Good luck with it.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • n_sharma50n_sharma50 Posts: 35
    I have decided not to move the gravel but instead i have secured some trough planters. they are 70 cm long, 30 cm deep and 27 cm wide. 

    What would be ideal to grow in these trough planters which create a nice hedge like look.

    Photonia red robin was one suggestion but are there ant other plants that can survive in such trough planters and be evergreen etc.

    this sort of planters


  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Those photinias would never manage in those wee planters. They aren't deep/wide enough.
    Most shrubs will struggle long term. You'd have to keep them pruned and not too big, unless they're open to the ground below. 
    Bog standard Privet would manage and some of the Euonymous fortuneii varieties. I'm sure other folk will have suggestions.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    There is a Photinia which should manage in a planter that shallow, it's a dwarf one called "Little Red Robin". The troughs are too shallow for large shrubs but there are some that would be OK, some Hebes but some aren't very hardy, Pittosporum, Choisya White Dazzler and Lavatera Barnsley Baby.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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