Sacha wrote:
On 12/11/04 6:07 pm, in article
, "Spider"
wrote:


emma wrote in message
...

Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round
colour border- colour must be yellow and purple.
Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial
use,
and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders
are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide.

Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need
to
be stunning and in keeping with the borders.

Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email
me


--
emma

Hi Emma,

It would be a good idea to use foliage plants in purples and
yellows
(as well as green) to relieve dangerous clashes.
Some examples a

snip of very useful information

But again - where is this project to be sited? It makes a big
difference to what is suggested. For yellow flowering I'd suggest
Euryops but what frost danger is there in the finished site? We've
had it down to -5 here in pots but I've lost it in a 'hard' winter
in
Jersey! It's no good offering lots of ideas if we don't know
where
the ideas are going to end up!
Emma, let us know where you're working and we can all pitch in
probably rather more helpfully.

For a short period ordinary cowslips and aubrieta look stunning
together; but you'll need other things for later, of course.

Mike.