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Hi new to the forum and looking for design ideas

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  • Don't forget penstemons, salvias, verbena bonariensis, foxgloves, scabious, geraniums, spirea and phlomis. Gaura and phlox are good too, and you can also try a small viburnum. The scent when its in flower is gorgeous, and the same goes for tree lillies. I agree with blairs that a matching border would look good.

  • addictaddict Posts: 659

    Coys get on the seed exchange. A lot of us have annuals to give away for the price of a stamp. image

  • CoysCoys Posts: 85
    addict wrote (see)

    Coys get on the seed exchange. A lot of us have annuals to give away for the price of a stamp. image

    Great only thing is i haven't a clue on growing from seed image

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409
    Coys wrote (see)
    Great only thing is i haven't a clue on growing from seed image

    Three years ago, neither did I - but you can use this site to ask what to do every step of the way - much better than books !  (Although if you want to read up on it too Carol Klein's "Grow your own garden" and the Readers Digest book of Propagating are good)

  • addictaddict Posts: 659

    And many are so simple to grow. All you need to know is what time of the year, scatter on the ground, cover with a little compost, water and wait!

    Some plants, like aguilegias, just have to see the soil to grow lol.  

  • CoysCoys Posts: 85

    Anyone think i can fit a tree into my garden somewhere,I want a tree image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    yes you can have one Coys. I wouldn't go for a potentially huge one. Hawthorn makes a good small tree and not worries with poisonous berries, you can eat them. But you'd have to be desperate to bother with them. 

    http://apps.rhs.org.uk/AdviceSearch/Profile.aspx?pid=117

    more here but there are many possibilities



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • CoysCoys Posts: 85

    Looking at the pic of my garden where do you think one would suit? 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    I'd have it down the end away from the house where it would serve instead of the parasol on the table (eventually). But I prefer a shady sitting place, you may not



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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