Shrubs can create different effects and sensations within a garden that vary with the time of year. They can complement feature plants or offset structural features such as timber or brickwork all year round.
Conifers provide excellent screening options for fences and structures, but can also be used as exciting, colourful features, or to divide areas within a garden.
Numerous amounts of plants lend themselves useful to container gardening in the same approach as weeping trees.
Naturally our recommendations are personal ones, but having said that shape is important, perhaps we should define this more precisely.
Climbers are wonderful for softening unsightly structures such as fences, sheds and walls. They flow as well as climb and do so at an encouraging pace. Climbers suit screening purposes or wall mounted container planting and can give a garden colour and variety all year round.
Trees add height and structure to a garden design as well as giving other benefits such as providing shade, privacy and a sense of sound and motion. The following are small to medium sized garden trees that should be available fairly easily.
Some people consider container gardening as an art, if this is the case then it’s not enough to gather a random selection of pots with a motley crew of conifers, perennials and leggy geraniums, lump them together in a corner of a patio and think it is a happy spontaneous and effective composition. It’s likely that we may have created quite simply a horrible mess.
Choosing the right containers for your patio, balcony, and basement (or wherever) should be a pleasurable experience. Deciding on which plants to grow in containers can be interesting and even exciting, especially since the options are so varied.
Perennials are permanent features of a garden despite being dormant in winter. They can be used in partnership with shrubs to provide year round colour and form and include some of the most familiar and loved garden flowers.