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Ankit PatelAnkit Patel Posts: 14
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Hi, 

I moved to this house last year and planning to put some new plants.Please take a look at the photo below. I have marked up few areas needs new plants.

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 1. Red area - I grew some asiatic lillies last year and am planning to add some dahlias as well. 

2.Yellow - I want to put some foxgloves, more plants would be advisable. 

3.Blue - I need to put some plant which would be around 1 feet in height as i dont want to obscure my view from house. 

4. purple - Something around .75 meter in lenght which would put some bright colours. 

Suggestions would be highly appreciated. I want to put some perennials if possible. 

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  • SparklesJDSparklesJD Posts: 344

    Is that part of a rockery I can see just to the left of the blue area at 3?

  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123

    Which direction does the purple area face Ankit? Secondly you have trees in the beds and saplings in the yellow area and a hedge in the red area. The trees, saplings and hedge will all out compete what ever you decide to plant. Your choices must take these things into account. If you can get the saplings out then do so now. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    why stick with the existing beds? Be bold. Take the bull by the horns and redo the whole thing to suit what you want, not the previous owners.

    Devon.
  • Ankit PatelAnkit Patel Posts: 14

    Hi,

    SparklsJD, that rockey would be out in summer unless you can suggest something with rocks. 

    Dave,

    Purple area face North-East, not that sunny area but i can go for plant around 1 m high and can get out of shadow of the garage. 

    Sorry wrong angle, red area has got hedge in the back bed area has been cut out from the lawn. 

    Yellow area has got big cherry tree and two stumps of the apple tree which i want to keep  for this year. What sapling you are talking about. All sapling would be out. I have spend one summer here and only thing useful there is some plants of foxglove. 

    Hostafan1, 

    I dont mind taking the bull if you can suggest totally new thing, you mean re bordering whole garden or new plants in existing border. Please let me know. 

    Thanks a lot for response. 

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,036

    I expect some of it will be shady as you have the fence, the shed and trees. There are lots of sorts of hardy geraniums which aren't too tall, grow in shade and make nice clumps. There are also pulmonarias, brunneras, epimediums and hostas. Then you can plant some brighter flowered plants in the sunny places, such as dahlias, heleniums, penstemens, salvia nemorosa. I'm not sure which beds are sunny and which are shady.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    Ankit, Hi. 

    You've inherited someone else's garden. If you didn't like the wallpaper they'd left on the walls, you'd change it right? Folk are oddly reluctant to do the same with the gardens they "inherit"

    You're garden should suit you. 

    EG, if you have kids who like to kick a ball around, leave lots of grass.

    If you have tons of time and enthusiasm for garden, have more borders and less grass. 

    If you want to grow fruit and veg , set aside an area for that.

    The possibilites are endless, but it's YOUR garden. YOU enjoy it. 

    Devon.
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