A 'quick' border - ideas?
I have removed all the weeds/ivy from my huge borders and there isn't much
left. :( My other half is complaining that our nice 'green' garden is now a wasteland (even though the 'green' was evil weed). So - what can I do to spruce things up quickly? I'd like to stick to blues, whites and purples, as this is basically what's left in the remaining shrubs... The border is south-facing and well drained, with nice rich soil - it's pretty good stuff. ROSIE |
A 'quick' border - ideas?
"Rosie" wrote in message ... I have removed all the weeds/ivy from my huge borders and there isn't much left. :( My other half is complaining that our nice 'green' garden is now a wasteland (even though the 'green' was evil weed). So - what can I do to spruce things up quickly? I'd like to stick to blues, whites and purples, as this is basically what's left in the remaining shrubs... The border is south-facing and well drained, with nice rich soil - it's pretty good stuff. ROSIE Apart from the pansy and petunias consider going from the small to the pretty big -- Heathers (you can get fantastic vivid colours these days) and the various Hebes , Andromeda (Marsh Rosmarie) --- all are ultra low maintentance and work well spaced by small conifers. Wall flower - (you can nice nice purple ones), Lavendula (aka Dutch Lavender), Lavender, Magnolias If you want something even bigger try Budlea (needs to be cut back regularly or they become enormous ) or for a late summer to early winter burst of barbie style showy colour Lavatera (Mallow) is available in various colours of pink, purple white (either as a semi hardy shrub or an annual from seed -- but keep both under control as they get big particulaly the shrub form) |
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