Specialty Gardening: Continuation of Cottage Gardens...., 1 by wgnkiwi

wgnkiwi wrote:
This next picture was taken early this year. The gardens in front of the house had nothing but Star Jasmine in them (which I loathe) so I ripped them out without really having a plan of what to put in them. I posted this on the Garden Design forum and got lots of great ideas which I followed up on but it just didn't come out the way I wanted, so again, I have pulled out lots of plants (but this time I've potted them up and they are waiting for a new home). The problem was that the birches created too much shade on one corner of the house and stole all the water so the gardens were growing in a very unbalanced fashion. Now that they are gone this won't be a problem.

I've filled the beds under the windows with Rosa 'Altissimo' - three on each side. It's a really lovely single red, that can be grown as a climber or shrub. As soon as I got them in the ground they just looked more "fitting' for the style of the house.

My plans are to replace the picket fence with one where the pickets look more like this, although not quite so much detail on the posts. It's the actual pickets that I like.

http://www.winterburngroup.on.ca/detail_image.php?ID=212

Then once that is done, I will create new beds behind it. The challenge is to have a garden that looks great from the road, particularly with the red door in the background and also looks from inside the house.

Gotta run and put the kids to bed. More detail to follow.