How about a herb bed? The soil sounds ideal and fennel or angelica would make a super centre piece with edible flowers making the outer circle you could make the bed pretty and practical.
Thank you for those last few suggestions all. Although have decided on the little empty space, white flowers with touches of yellow still have another new area to fill.
It is going to be a sort of rock garden but from a landscape point of view rather than wholly alpines (it is also a bit shady). Think the lovely Choisya Ternata Sundance may well become the key feature, this patch is quite near what will be the white patch so hopefully the yellow will look good near it. Have recently seen some lovely Heuchera, a plant I am not that familiar with but having followed your suggestions am keen to try them. (Saw a lovely Lime Marmalade one).
Biofreak, am also in process of creating a herb garden but in a wheel on the back terrace bit nearer to the kitchen. Like the idea of a fennel or angelica centrepiece though, great idea.
Thanks all again, will post pictures next year when it materialises, but of course by then the whole design could have changed completely. Appreciate all the ideas and suggestions. Wish I had an unending budget!
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Love the idea of Salvia Amsted, Verd. I bought 3 for a friend who is now doing me some cuttings for next year. Could keep mauve theme by underplanting with annual verbenas? ( I think amistad is Spanish for friendship, so I formally propose it as the flower mascot for this thread?)
I am very happy with my new roundabout bed, about the same size as your bed DD.
Now planted with ornamental grasses, small rudbeckias, verb. bonariensis, and with my tree stumps, all finished of with my little house on the prairie, as supplied by Gardengirl.
Hi Woody, I saw your pictures the other day, it looks super, amazing what you can do with a blank canvas isn't it.
Liking the idea of a friendship mascot, this forum has been great for me, was quite put out the other day when someone was being derogatory about it, I would have been totally lost with all the help and advice on here.
Btw, I had rudbeckia this year, they have nearly finished now, will they come up again next year or are they just annuals, they were lovely and I would like to see them again, do you by any chance know?
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
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How about a herb bed? The soil sounds ideal and fennel or angelica would make a super centre piece with edible flowers making the outer circle you could make the bed pretty and practical.
Thank you for those last few suggestions all. Although have decided on the little empty space, white flowers with touches of yellow still have another new area to fill.
It is going to be a sort of rock garden but from a landscape point of view rather than wholly alpines (it is also a bit shady). Think the lovely Choisya Ternata Sundance may well become the key feature, this patch is quite near what will be the white patch so hopefully the yellow will look good near it. Have recently seen some lovely Heuchera, a plant I am not that familiar with but having followed your suggestions am keen to try them. (Saw a lovely Lime Marmalade one).
Biofreak, am also in process of creating a herb garden but in a wheel on the back terrace bit nearer to the kitchen. Like the idea of a fennel or angelica centrepiece though, great idea.
Thanks all again, will post pictures next year when it materialises, but of course by then the whole design could have changed completely. Appreciate all the ideas and suggestions. Wish I had an unending budget!
Love the idea of Salvia Amsted, Verd. I bought 3 for a friend who is now doing me some cuttings for next year. Could keep mauve theme by underplanting with annual verbenas? ( I think amistad is Spanish for friendship, so I formally propose it as the flower mascot for this thread?)
I am very happy with my new roundabout bed, about the same size as your bed DD.
Now planted with ornamental grasses, small rudbeckias, verb. bonariensis, and with my tree stumps, all finished of with my little house on the prairie, as supplied by Gardengirl.
Hi Woody, I saw your pictures the other day, it looks super, amazing what you can do with a blank canvas isn't it.
Liking the idea of a friendship mascot, this forum has been great for me, was quite put out the other day when someone was being derogatory about it, I would have been totally lost with all the help and advice on here.
Btw, I had rudbeckia this year, they have nearly finished now, will they come up again next year or are they just annuals, they were lovely and I would like to see them again, do you by any chance know?
I saw that thread and wondered what the world was coming to. Like you I sought and received "amistad" here as well as good plant advice.
There are annual and perennial rudbeckias I think, but mine are definitely hardy. If you leave them out you will soon know which one you have.
Thank you, nothing to lose by trying, this gardening has certainly taught me patience!
Did they look like this? These are my perennial ones. Rudbeckia Hirta.
They look perennial to me....
Mine are called Marmalade but even the label is very vague. I was hoping they might just self seed, but I don't know if that is what they do.