Beginner Gardening: Blank slate and new style...need HELP please!, 3 by warriorswisdomkathy

warriorswisdomkathy wrote:
Just an idea: have you thought about adding a white picket fence in the front, nothing says cottage more than that to begin with, lol. and an arbor gate. If you can put in a picket fence it could be lined with vines, shrub roses and varios other small flowering shrubs as a backdrop for the perenns that could come in next. I noticed a car in the back..will it be coming out the front or do you have another acess area from which to drive?
Might consider some small flowering crabapples, cercise canadensis (flowering redbud), or Chionanthis (gosh I hope I spelled that right) or even a Hawthorn to help set the scene too, remember to sight your shade trees to your best advantage also if putting any in. Will you be rototilling up the ground? And are you including any grass?

Got all sorts of ideas if you like...just give us a bit more info....
Come spring....if your willing to pay shipping I got ALLL sorts of perens. I'd be happy to share with you!!!! (I could share several boxes if you like.) And I have hundreds of Iris germanica that can be divided..... Cottage garden, now you're talking my style....overflowing with blooms... Can't necesarrily change the style of the house but we can have you add things to help pull off the theme...or try to..lol. Have you thought about adding window boxes? Also might want to look at some books by P. Allen Smith. Some of his older books where his garden was in town (now he lives on large acrerage). He didn't have any grass, all flowers!!!

Could build another arbor/gate going into the backyard also, again drenched in vines...annuals or perenns. Am in the process of landscaping my own backyard, and it will be nothing but trees, shrubs and flowers...Got a gazillion seedlings coming up under lights now...and am sure I will have extra foxglove, Anthemis tinctoria, daisies, verbascum, salvias, Aquilegias (Columbine) and other goodies...just tell us more...

Hey moon...thanks for some of those links..will have to check them out myself. Ya never know where the next great idea will come from...it's fun being able to borrow ideas from others sometimes too...

So snackie...you'll have to give us more info.... is it a do-it-yourself project or do you have helpers (family) or plan on hiring someone to put in the bones so to speak before you dress up the yard how you want it? Kathy.