Northeast Gardening: Show us your garden beds!, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Another shrub I am fond of using in the mixed border is an Oak leaf Hydrangea. But I pretty much have planted all our beds with a mixture of shrubs, bulbs and perennials with a few annuals. I use Potentilla fruticosa, many spirea, lilac, buddleia, mounds of lavender and caryopteris for structure. Here is a mixed look of some of the beds on the east side of the house looking out to a side yard with a favorite sitting place. The dogs love it too. Patti