Texas Gardening: need help, shade in a.m., blazing sun in p.m., 0 by barbur

barbur wrote:
I want to enlarge a bed in the front of my home. In the back I have cottage/English garden look but in the front I want it to be more organized with a layered look. Beginning at the wall to the right of the front door I want a large circle (10-12' diameter) then curving in (5') and out again froming a smaller circle (7' in diameter) on the far right.

The challenge is that the bed faces SW and will be shaded in the morning by the house and a tree and blazing sun the rest of the day. I live in S. Texas near the coast.

I already have some Indian Hawthorns against the wall that I would like to keep because there are some to the left of the front door. The bed needs to have some evergreen bones and I'd like to have something blooming as much as possible. I think there needs to be an accent plant in the middle of the big circle. Is all this an impossible task?

This message was edited Jul 9, 2006 10:22 PM