Shape of new borders

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• Smallcopper Posts: 34

  5 February

  Thanks plantminded, and for the photos! Looks so lush and green in summer, with great autumn colour!

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• Smallcopper Posts: 34

  5 February

  Ah thanks @Fire that's very cool! Those flowers are beautiful - will have to watch for advice and inspiration. So far I've got the beds set up, being patient to start sowing as the last couple years I've made the mistake of starting too early. Got things like hardy annuals (cornflowers, calendula etc), snapdragon, cosmos, dahlias, zinnia, dill

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  5 February

  Yes, timing is all. The book (linked above) gives sowing calendar.
  

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• Loxley Posts: 5,698

  6 February edited 6 February

  Smallcopper said:
   It's a paddock area which is ours, so no problem with privacy. I started some veg beds there last year, and planning to do some cut flowers this year as it gets more sun!

  Oh my god, I'm so jealous!
  
  I would put some sort of eyecatcher (sculpture, sundial etc) at the furthest point and frame a view so the eye is drawn to it, through the trees.

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  6 February

  Monty Don has fields around Long Meadow and has cut long vistas through hedges to the landscape beyond. Good to draw the surroundings into the garden.
  

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• Smallcopper Posts: 34

  6 February

  Ah that's an interesting idea @Loxley - do you mean at the back by the fence?

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• Loxley Posts: 5,698

  6 February

  No, on the other side, at the far end of the paddock (a position that lines up with you eyeline from the patio). Then narrow the gap (where the fence is) with planting, framing the view of the 'eyecatcher' so it beckons you to explore the paddock or at least gives a sense of space reaching beyond your garden.

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 

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• Smallcopper Posts: 34

  7 February

  Ah I understand, thank you!

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