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I have a average back garden around 30 foot by 30 foot,I would like to landscape around the sides bottom part and two sides.
What plants would you advise for all season,just overall any tips i would want to do it myself thanks xxxx
Its sunny i live in the city liverpool,and would like it to look nice and maybe hide my fencing xxx
I agree with above, don't bother with grass and especially if you had planned on a tiny border garden around the perimeter. Anything less than a meter deep is too narrow and actually 2 meters is better.
I know cheap is the first rule, so scrounge around for plants. Garden clubs often have plant sales, car boot sales sometimes have plants, ask around when people are working their garden and have extra plants. The trees and shrubs you can purchase in smaller sizes.....they grow.
Paving or stone might be from construction sites with broken concrete, some people are willing to "sell" you their stone or gravel if you'll haul it away.
I'd create a nice terrace/patio or some type sitting area in the "middle" either of stone or pavers and then plant the rest small ornamental tree or two, moderate size shrubs, some evergreen some flowering deciduous, some small plants around the sitting area...herbs were a lovely idea, maybe a trellis/pergola marking the entry to the garden with a wonderful rose or clematis growing over the top, and maybe a nice small water feature beside the sitting area. By focusing your attention to the middle of your garden, you won't notice that back wall.
The garden at my childhood home; my parents renovated it from scratch but over the last few years it has been severely neglected due to upheaval ...
i am going self employed and am looking for customers who want garden maintenance /make overs /lawn /hedge/tree cutting work done etc.this is part of my market research and am trying to establish whats needed in this sector and also trying to find out how much people are willing to pay for this type of service.any help would be much appreciated.
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I'm looking for a landscape gardener, for excavation & clearence work, laying scaplings for a driveway, & path approx 100ft by 60ft. Are you based near Selsey in West Sussex ?
I'd like to create a white themed garden that looks pretty at night and will blend in my back yard corner area. I know that the moonflower is a good choice for a running vine. Are there any white flowering evergreen shrubs or other choices I can choose from also? I think that white is elegant and relaxful for a garden setting.
Not only should you consider white flowers for a white garden but the pale colors or pale pink, light lavender, lilac, and pale yellow as well. These color just pop when twilight begins, especially pale lavender, something about light wavelengths and theirs being long, I think.
Some great flowers are impatients, they come in white but also light shades of lilac and pink and petunias also in those colors.
For next year you might want to add white triumphator tulips.
There are also white cone flowers, white roses (alba rugosa and Ice berg), lambsear (gray-green foliage with pale pink flowers), hosta plantaginea (has a large trumpet shaped flower that smells of gardenia), Annabell hydrangea, nicotiana Only the Lonely (flower smells of gardenia and opens at night), Other white plants, White Profusion butterfly bush, phlox 'David', the near white daylily Joan Senior, white variegated hosta, Casa Blanca Oriental lily, Peacock Gladiola, regular white gladiola, white delphinium, Muscadet Oriental lily, nigella African bride, and white Sonata (a short one!) cosmos.
Many trumpet shaped flowers will attract the night-active hummingbird moths and hawk moths, which feed at dusk and are amazing to watch, very much like hummingbirds themselves. They are insect the size of a small hummingbird.
A grey, white and pale yellow garden would be wonderful.
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am looking for a way to help see my landscaping and gardening come together before I start planting and landscaping. Any ideas of websites or tools that let you put in a design of your house and fencing and start from there?
There are many, many pieces of design software on the market today. From professional versoins costing thousands of dollars to free versions. So I think the best thing to do is give you a couple of links and chech out the free software from google.
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Energy Efficient windows may be a great savings inside the home, but their effect on your landscaping can cause you just the opposite situation, as magnified rays are reflected from your windows directly onto vulnerable leaf tissue.
For several years I have observed the damage in turf grass and garden plants caused by the radiant heating that comes off of new energy efficient windows. In areas exposed to full summer sun for more than 8 hours a day, I have measured temperatures up to and exceeding 160 degrees beamed directly onto plant material. Plants that normally seem healthy fall through spring will begin to show leaf scorch, and die back to the ground. Areas around your house that were lush and green prior to your window installation now look dry and damaged through the hottest summer weather.
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...Creating a traditional dry stone wall with local resources ...
As you travel from place to place in the UK (or the world) there is much historical evidence of localised material production and use.
In areas such as Wales, Scotland and Cornwall, local stone, often only hauled across a field from a quarry adjacent to its final resting place, has been used for whole villages, including boundary walls and even roofs.
Wood was cut in the local woodland with straw and mud taken from neighbouring farmland. Often, clay pits would be opened up and the clay fired to produce bricks and tiles.
On land that has high flint content, the flint was knapped and used in conjunction with brick and stone to build houses - all in all, a sensible way to utilise natural resources as close as possible to the building site.
I think that garden designers and landscapers (and house builders) are faced with an increased challenge of sourcing and using local materials in new gardens or additional features in existing schemes.
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