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SW Facing front.
Greetings my fellow garden enthusiasts, hope all is well in your gardens this spring.
I have a south/south west facing front paved small garden at the front of my terrace house. I was thinking of pulling up some of these paving stones and planting a some perennials. I was thinking either Peonies or Camelia's any other suggestions?
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I wouldn't put camellia's in there, too much early morning sun would burn the new buds in winter/spring. There are loads of other shrubs/perennials you could choose. you could choose.
Its only 10'x5' Edd, i was going to remove some cracked paving stones, make a border at the boundary brick wall, and plant some shrubs, as i still have my bins out front?
Thought you was in the SS then Edd lol, great ideas though. Out front, no kids, no use for the land. and Philippa also great ideas thankyou.
Would i be ok with Peonies though?
Peonies would do well there, but as phillipa says they only flower for a short period, so to spread the flowering season plant a mixture of perennials.
There you go Edd, this is my front patch of land!
So no more input? Im thinking of a few Peonies, interspersed with ground cover to negate the cats, also possibly Dicentra/Foxglove/ Anemone's or something similar, this is all along the wall by the way, which is covered from wind, but gets amazing sunlight after midday?
Hi ogster,
I would definitely pull the slabs up too and plant it up.
So many plants can go in a S/SW facing garden, it's hard to say as it is what you like personally.
The peonies will be fine, as others have said though, they don't flower for very long and have a tendency to get trashed if it rains
There is an app called plant genie by crocus which is quite handy- it picks up your grid, you answer a few questions and it brings up suitable plants. It's by crocus, but of course you don't have to purchase from them. The tool on their website is useful too, for narrowing down choices and seeing what you like.
I'd go for a cottage-style planting - paeonies, foxgloves, a pretty rose (Bonica would do very well there) surrounded by forget-me-knots and tulips in the spring and alchemilla mollis later on, and then some Aster frikartii Monch and some pink Achillea 'Pretty Belinda' for autumn colour.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.