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Gardeners’ Forum: “help: How do you plan your garden”

• help: How do you plan your garden

  Posted by Natasha-Lynn on Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:27 am AST

  How do you plan your garden,What should be your borders,middle,your background?How do you know it will turn out

  • re: help: How do you plan your garden

    Posted by Chris on Wednesday, April 4, 2001 6:59 pm ADT

    The best thing to do is get yourself some books, or talk to other gardeners in the area that you've seen with garden displays that you admire. Also, local garden societies/greenhouses will be able to help.

  • re: help: How do you plan your garden

    Posted by sue on Tuesday, April 17, 2001 2:24 pm ADT

    There is an excellent book by Patrick Lima on Perennial Gardening. It will offer excellent ideas for planning. I am a big fan of tall delphiniums, dinner plate dahlias, sunflowers, dragons heart, Fox glove (be careful, seeds and buds of fox glove are poisonous), tall phlox, sneeze weed, hollyhocks for the back of my borders. The middle is saved for liatris, shasta daisy, echinacea, rudbekia, jacobs ladder, dahlia, day lilly, Aconitum (monkshood - note whole plant is poisonous), tulips, daffodils, iris, etc for middle and for front of border, hardy geraniums, dwarf oriental lilly, creeping phlox, snow in summer (careful - ground cover), hyacinth, iris reticulata, pansies etc. Flowers of the same colour will make more impact (ie a group of purple hyacinth planted with peach tulis will make more of an impact than mixed coloured tulips and hyacinth). Good luck