Hello,

i have joined this forum in the hope of getting some great advice to help create a great looking maintenance (almost) free meditteranian garden for the front of my property.

The front of my property is north facing so receives alot of shade. I have an area of about 4m x 2.5m which i am creating the garden in. So far i have stripped the area back to the soil and covered it with membrane so that the weeds dont come through.


I have intetions of keeping the membrane there and coving it in a decorative aggregate of some sort and having some plants coming through the stone. I like the date palm and was sold on the idea of using this but i have a great veiw from the front of my house which i dont want to be blocked so i went off the date palm unless what i have been told is true.... I have been told that if i plant it in the ground in a pot it will be restricted in height and size.

I would also like quite a bit of colour in there too but again with no maintenance involoved. Its not because i am lazy but i have two demanding kids so looking after it is not always easy which is why i ripped the lawn out in the first place.

Any advice here would be greatly appreciated and if it would help i could put up some photo's of exactly what i am working with it would help?

Yours in hope

Paul Paterson

Where are you located?

North-facing "lot of shade" limits it of course, how much sun does it
get?

Any vertical limits - would a taller tree or vine get more sun?

J.


On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:36:23 +0100, paterson00
wrote:


Hello,

i have joined this forum in the hope of getting some great advice to
help create a great looking maintenance (almost) free meditteranian
garden for the front of my property.

The front of my property is north facing so receives alot of shade. I
have an area of about 4m x 2.5m which i am creating the garden in. So
far i have stripped the area back to the soil and covered it with
membrane so that the weeds dont come through.


I have intetions of keeping the membrane there and coving it in a
decorative aggregate of some sort and having some plants coming through
the stone. I like the date palm and was sold on the idea of using this
but i have a great veiw from the front of my house which i dont want to
be blocked so i went off the date palm unless what i have been told is
true.... I have been told that if i plant it in the ground in a pot it
will be restricted in height and size.

I would also like quite a bit of colour in there too but again with no
maintenance involoved. Its not because i am lazy but i have two
demanding kids so looking after it is not always easy which is why i
ripped the lawn out in the first place.

Any advice here would be greatly appreciated and if it would help i
could put up some photo's of exactly what i am working with it would
help?

Yours in hope

Paul Paterson

I live at me7 1qd in england.

A tree would not help as the sun really is blocked by the house all day and i wouldn't really want to lose my veiw. I thought a date palm would be ok there with just a small amount of sun.