Garden
Petunias may seem be a strange choice for a night garden, but they have a secret. Petunias are night scented. Some smell during the day, but not to the same intensity of the night scent. Plant them in window boxes or hanging baskets to gain the full benefit of the evening scent. Petunia 'Tumbelina' are among the most highly scented, producing wafts of vanilla fragrance that are strongest in the dead of night.
Pale, light-reflecting grasses are perfect to edge a path with. Here their reflective light is not only decorative; it acts as a safety feature, illuminating the edge of the path. Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola', zones 5 to 9) is a neat, clump-forming deciduous grass growing to 12 inches, with narrow, arching, green-striped, bright yellow leaves, often reddish tinged in autumn and early winter. Here, Japanese forest grass is planted under pristine white Hydrangea paniculata, creating an enchanting evening walkway.
Lamb's ears (Stachys byzantina, zones 4 to 8) has leaves that glisten in the moonlight. A ground-covering perennial, it has the most wonderful silvery leaves that have a woolly appearance. Leaves are often retained quite late into autumn or winter in mild areas, but the plant is not properly evergreen.
I make no bones about the fact that I like plants that form colonies, and harlequin glory bower (Clerodendron trichotomum, zones 5/6 to 10) is one of my favorites. This shrub is glorious for a few reasons, the most prominent being its deliciously fragrant jasmine-scented white-over-magenta flowers so late in the season that give way to gorgeously weird fruit like bright blue BBs, also framed by a magenta mantle. Give glory blower room (about 10 feet) to spread out, and you’ll be rewarded by a 10- to 15-foot-tall colony in time — shorter in colder zones, where it may die back to the ground in winter. Bonus: Its leaves smell like peanut butter.
Use narrow raised bed, divided into boxes for each herb to reduce self seeding/crazy spreading....
wild area of garden - use grasses under fruit trees
Hmmmm. I wonder how big it is?
If i have gravel in my garden, I'd like it to be sweeping, and raked, restful like a Japanese garden.
LOVE this idea! How to make sure they're weather proof tho? Esp in the English climate?
Gravel squares interspersed with paving...add to the plants growing in the cracks?
Garden fence. High grasses at back to soften. Then do what i want at the front.
Fireplace in wall.
stuff growing between the paving stones. What I want to achieve in my next garden.
How do I put in a cover like this that won't gather the rain when it rains? If this is material I could take down and wash, but then it won't keep the rain off. Confused.
for city garden? curious about water source tho.
terraced lawn. nice. you can sit on the edges too!
fencing...
Curvy beds, ever green shrubbage, roses mixed in, lawn, casual looking garden. LOVE.
Grass inside steps...
Too formal for me...
One day. Roses. In my garden. Everywhere. Well. Not quite. About THIS rose: "My perfect rose is a new English rose called Evelyn. It has a sweet, citrusy fragrance, soft-as-air petals and a color to die for. This particular rose grows on a sturdy bush that does not succumb to many pests and diseases."
Roughly my idea, but I want to use those bricks they use on the stairs in Dartmouth....and let grass and rock plants grow through the gaps
How i'd like the grass to be in my 'wildflower bee garden'. Under the apple trees...or something!
ADORE the structure of this planting. Have loved the way aliums do this ever since seeing a bed of them at The National Theatre
Like the cottage garden herbaceous border
raised beds. Wouldn't do gravel tho, would do brick paths.
LOVE this water feature!
water feature
Town garden. High fence - dark wash, heavy wood w trellis at top.
Grass, gravel, path.
CLEVER! Down the WALL!
And this. Dividing the space. Like the decking too, by the way.
Love this.
Perfect for my summer barbeques...raised rills for everyone's beer and wine! yay!
I really would like something like this.....even if it's UNDER a mesh/wire so that ppl can walk on it....
Yummm.
Pergola thingy....not TOO many plants on it. I failed at this in Harbut Road! lol
water feature - running water...
A "sit and chat and keep warm area", an eating area, and a veggie growing area. Yes please.
Veranda
City garden. Bit more grass space maybe? Lower flower bed, but like.
Path
Yes, GARDEN! Under a pergola.
HA! Chickens below, tree house above!
Grassy orchard. Love. need to keep gently mown of course!
paved for use, grass for coolness/freshness/softness. Would love this in Harbut Road!
Something like this, but incorporating my current beds, and using recycled bricks for the paving.
Q