Hi Angela. I have similar bed at the bottom of my garden too. I think maybe have a large water bowl (which is what I have) or maybe a huge urn and then add some new plants, get rid of the ones you don't like
I think you need to make more of a statement. It just looks rather forlorn at the moment. Either go for less is more or jam pack it with plants.
If in the less is more category you need something to catch the eye - perhaps a very large (empty) clay urn, a grouping of some tall grasses (Miscanthus springs to mind but do some reasearch) which look good all year round. perhaps another small grouping of Blue fescues (Verdun is the expert in grasses I think). Add a group of big boulders and some smaller round cobblestones. Aim for a few groups rather than dot planting.
If of the jampack persuasion, dig it all up, enrich the soil and turn it into a fragrant rose garde, underplanting standard roses with shrub roses - all one type of rose for the underplanting - read the catalogues and get ones which are fragrant and flower the longest. And in both cases, edge the border with the grass with paving bricks or flat cobbles.
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Thanks you for all your advice. I've been out thus weekend and started the ground work. I've planed out my garden and what I have to move! I have lots of summer flowers but not a little if spring colours.
I think I'm going to use the yukka as the central feature and then I have 4 roses left over so was thinking about them framing the yukka. Now I'll look at some of the plant you've suggested and see how I get on.
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Hi Angela. I have similar bed at the bottom of my garden too. I think maybe have a large water bowl (which is what I have) or maybe a huge urn and then add some new plants, get rid of the ones you don't like
I think you need to make more of a statement. It just looks rather forlorn at the moment. Either go for less is more or jam pack it with plants.
If in the less is more category you need something to catch the eye - perhaps a very large (empty) clay urn, a grouping of some tall grasses (Miscanthus springs to mind but do some reasearch) which look good all year round. perhaps another small grouping of Blue fescues (Verdun is the expert in grasses I think). Add a group of big boulders and some smaller round cobblestones. Aim for a few groups rather than dot planting.
If of the jampack persuasion, dig it all up, enrich the soil and turn it into a fragrant rose garde, underplanting standard roses with shrub roses - all one type of rose for the underplanting - read the catalogues and get ones which are fragrant and flower the longest. And in both cases, edge the border with the grass with paving bricks or flat cobbles.
Thanks you for all your advice. I've been out thus weekend and started the ground work. I've planed out my garden and what I have to move! I have lots of summer flowers but not a little if spring colours.
I think I'm going to use the yukka as the central feature and then I have 4 roses left over so was thinking about them framing the yukka. Now I'll look at some of the plant you've suggested and see how I get on.
Thanks again. Always like lots of useful feedback
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