Hi Bill, difficult to tell what the plants at the back of the photo from but I can do most of the front ones. From the left front - 3 Hebe balls (to their right)Heuchera with Lavender behind and black Phormium behind it;front and right again 3 varigated Hebe balls; yellow foliage behind looks like Euonymous; front and right again golden Heuchera with Caryopteris(blue flowers)behind;right and front again, blue grass with a varigated grass behind - hope this helps.
Thanks ever so much Daintness that has me smiling I like the Caryopteris and may substitute that for the lavender.
Another question are all the plants in the border evergreen?
How many of the plants would anyone realistically put into a 10ft planter.
I like the look of the blackish plant on the back right anyone have any ideas what this is?
I would put in Nandina domestica 'Firepower' AGM - hasn't got blue flowers but has creamy flowers, foliage changes colour, upright growth, red berries in winter and is evergreen.
Sounds like a god mix and i hope it works well for you.
Just for info, Russian sage is cut back hard every spring to renew vigour and stem colour so its size is controlled. I've just bought 3 to add to my front bed which is being modified to provide extra winter interest.
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All those I named are evergreen apart from Caryopteris
Daintness what would you put in the Caryopteris's place as an evergreen?
Thanks
Bill
Russian sage which looks similar but has the white stems in winter - see post above.
Thanks Obelixx, Do they do a smaller that 1,2m russian sage I think this may be too large after a couple of years
I would put in Nandina domestica 'Firepower' AGM - hasn't got blue flowers but has creamy flowers, foliage changes colour, upright growth, red berries in winter and is evergreen.
Daintness that looks a nice plant
I'm sat with the wife trying to google everything you told me from the picture
Theres a plan forming somewhere in the back of my head haha
We have now planted up the planters each with
2 box
2 hebes
2 choysia
1 phormium
3 ajuga
2 Euonymus fortunei emerld and gold
2 fountain grass
Looks good and I am pretty pleased so far
Thanks for everyones help
Sounds like a god mix and i hope it works well for you.
Just for info, Russian sage is cut back hard every spring to renew vigour and stem colour so its size is controlled. I've just bought 3 to add to my front bed which is being modified to provide extra winter interest.