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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 28, 2007 19:02:14 GMT
As usual I'm in a tizzy about this year's border...we have a smallish garden, and I've got sooooooo many seeds...I seem to remember last year thinking that I'd stick to a particular colour scheme...purples, blues and orange were my favourites...but I'm having second thoughts. I can't not have my dahlias...or the gorgeous gazanias, dwarf bedding echiums...malva magic....cleome...I could go on.
What do you plan to do this year? are you going for the serene approach? with tasteful pastel shades or the riot of colour that I always seem to end up with? It's difficult to decide when you only have a little garden.... ;D Somehow we've got to squeeze in vegetables as well....
If I had a vast garden I'd prolly do the 'this is the cool border with muted hues of white dappled through with pale blues and lavender' but I HAVEN'T got a huge big garden so you get it ALL in one eyefull.
Is there a way include it all without it all just ending up looking a mess? Christopher Lloyd seemed to manage...but he had Dixter...
help.
CPBxxx
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 28, 2007 19:14:04 GMT
I tend to try and keep the suttle colours in the garden beds and do the blast your eyes out shock colours in pots or hanging baskets, then I can move them around and put them were they fit best at what ever time of year they flower, if that makes sense. I like pots around the paths and benches.
I'm not good at colour co-ordinating in the gdn at all, theres always something that shouldn't be in a certain place. I always say I must move that next year and then I forget were stuff is so it stays the same or I dig it up and put it in a plastic pot at the back of the GH till I find a new home, then over winter I forget whats what. I really must get more organised ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2007 19:20:47 GMT
I don't use much summer bedding at all, my garden is full of perennials and shrubs and there is little room left for bedding. I have space for my Dahlias and some Gazanias or similar, but like Chuckles i use hanging baskets and flower pouches for bright coloured bedding, but even these are kept to a minimum  |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 28, 2007 19:54:59 GMT
You see I've just got NO self control......
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2007 20:00:58 GMT
My garden looks like a fight in a paint factory ;D
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Post by isabella on Feb 28, 2007 20:44:56 GMT
Hello CPB - I am going with pinks,purples,lemons,cream and blue for my front garden bedding - I love bedding plants and will be using
pink busy lizzies
heliotrope
Vanilla marigolds
laurentia
cosmos sonata mixed
white margueites
blue salvias-summer skies
prism sunshine petunias
and plectranthus
In the little side garden I will have
peach busy lizzies
red fuchsias
illumination begonias
and whatever
Around the patio I try to keep the orange,red, purple and yellows
and through the arch to the oval garden I try to keep to purples,blues and pinks
Garden Sorted ;D
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Post by andy on Mar 1, 2007 5:07:20 GMT
My garden looks like a fight in a paint factory ;D And so it should do......go for the "riot of colour" option CPB  |
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Post by roxann57 on Mar 1, 2007 6:42:00 GMT
I've got mainly perennials, but there is always a space to squeeze a bit more colour in - well so I think, until it all grows ;D Rainbows are beautiful. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 1, 2007 7:05:40 GMT
Cheery's garden is ALWAYS lovely but it is a bit tardis like! I don't know how she gets all these plants in but she does.... my own view is that gardens should be for plants you love so who cares if they don't go? I don't really understand that concept at all! Saying that, my base colour is green as I prefer to grow my plants against a backdrop of weeds ;D. I have plants I cannot manage without such as my beloved Cerinthe purpurea, Verbena bonariensis and bronze Fennel and then I shove plants wherever and whenever I can find a space....I think it's more exciting that way - "ooh, look, that's where that Sweet William/ Alchemilla/whatever is"!! I DO start out with well laid plans just cos it's a way to pass the time waiting for Spring but I rarely actually follow them......  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 1, 2007 11:45:43 GMT
At the Nursery that I buy nearly all my plants from, they have made separate coloured gardens all along the Car Park area - White Garden, Blue Garden etc, - and they stick to it - all bushes, perennials and summer flowers are in the designated colour.
It looks lovely actually, so I decided that I would try it and I did it - I have a Red garden, Blue Garden, White Garden etc, - except that mine are all jumbled up together because I can never make up my mind.
RF
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2007 12:30:06 GMT
Well ... I do start off with colour schemes, but then ... there are so many lovely plants. So the basic idea is lots of purples, reds and oranges .... but other things will creep in! 4P, I just saw this morning that my Cerinthe Purpurescensc (sp?) seeds have sprouted ... can't wait for them to grow, although I've no idea yet where I'm going to squeeze them in ... cheers ...
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Mar 1, 2007 17:28:00 GMT
OOH Pam that sounds delicious...but you've got quite a big garden (compared to mine) I shall enjoy seeing this year's photos btw, taken with your birthday camera of course ;D
I think I'll take on board the wise counsel of my fellow borders...and then just go mad and plant EVERYTHING....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2007 18:17:12 GMT
Cheery
If you only have a smallish garden with limited space, a bed of only one or two colours would be a bit of an indulgence. I'd go for the rainbow effect if I were you.
FA x
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Post by isabella on Mar 1, 2007 19:05:52 GMT
I agree - Go for the Rainbow ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Mar 1, 2007 19:07:09 GMT
o awrite
you twisted my arm ;D
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