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What’s missing from my front garden?

TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
in Garden design
I’ve been here two years now. 

The top tier of the front garden has gone from this: 



to this:



Seeing it every day I think I become blind to any areas of improvement. 

I’ve added a few hollies and a mahonia along the wall but they’re too small to see at the moment. 

I’ve also added in a mahonia fire flame and a Viburnum Charles Lamont and planted more Luzula Nivea and three Miscanthus Flamingo (again they are all too small to see right now). 

The VB aren’t fully grown yet either. 

Ignoring your own plant preferences in regards to what’s already there (colour etc) what would you do next? 

What’s missing? 🤔

Opinions welcomed and encouraged. 
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  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I'm planning (always with the planning PP😒 ) some mixed beds but with limited varieties of plants; maybe two or three. I'm thinking about leaf colour and texture as well as flower colour and form. You know the kind of thing, spikey with soft and rounded. Season of interest is also important to me so as one's going over something else will be coming in.
    Have you bulbs in?
    It looks fab to me and as I said I'm all plans talk.
    Feel free to ignore any or all of my freely given opinions. 🤣
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Haha! 

    I have daffodils, snowdrops and fritillary as well as primrose. 

    I keep trying for later blooming perennials but the slugs have other ideas. I put five heleniums in about a month ago but they’ve all gone. 

    I’ve managed to get two rudbeckia goldsturm to grow this year (despite the slugs) so they should flower later. 

    I can’t be faffed with annuals. I have two baskets next to the front door and that’s enough. 


  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    My annuals happen biennially!
    One year I plant them and they're beautiful and time consuming so I swear I'm not doing them again. The next year I have none and miss them. This is an off year.  :)

  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Haha! 

    I can’t be doing with clambering all over that raised bed affair to put in some poncy flowers that will need removing again in three months. 


  • Wild_VioletWild_Violet Posts: 221
    It looks lovely to me but what about a couple of taller narrow shrubs /trees or 2 or 3 standard roses /shrub?
     Depending on the rest of your landscaping, you could always paint the front of the wall too (at the lower end) to change things up a bit.
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    I think a load of climbers clambering all over the walls, so often everything. And possibly some fastigiate trees.
  • CH1973CH1973 Posts: 73
    Some sort of tall garden statue. First I thought bird bath but you would be climbing up all the time to fill it up so a figurine. Nice one 🙂
  • CH1973CH1973 Posts: 73
    edited June 2023
    Or how about a tall grass.Stipa gigantea, golden oats. Can see it there would look nice once it fires it flower spikes up.
  • CH1973CH1973 Posts: 73
    edited June 2023
    Give it a focal point. Looks great when light hits it 🙂
  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    Many years ago, sadly I don't have pictures, a dear aunt of mine had a beautiful hardy fuchsia on the boundary of her front garden and the path. It was almost like a small multistemmed tree and looked wonderful.
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