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Planning planting combinations

I'm planning a new bed for the front garden - alkali, west facing on good loam but a bit of a frost pocket.  The bed is going to be roughly L-shaped with a trellis 'fence' behind one 'leg' which hides the bins. The 'leg' across the front of the house will be 4m x 1.5m and  the other leg will be 3m x 2m at it's widest, but mainly 3m x 1m because of the bins behind the trellis.  

I have some plants I have been saving for this bed - one particular one is a special Bearded Iris Boxford Spice - this was hybridised by the late Ellis Carpenter whose daughter is my daughter's friend - it's not commercially available and I'm very lucky to have some rhizomes which are being kept for me image  It's a wonderful mix of colours, magenta/gold/browny-bronze and creamy-tan details here  http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/132261/#b .  My idea is for this to be at one end of the bed near the front door, Paeonia mlokosewitschii http://www.lathyrus-seed.com/paradise/flowers/mlokosewitschii.html  will live nearby and Clematis viticella Purpurea Plena Elegans http://www.taylorsclematis.co.uk/clematis-purpurea_plena-elegans.html   will be behind them. 

At the other end I will have  Clematis Daniel Deronda http://www.taylorsclematis.co.uk/clematis-daniel-deronda.html  and Clematis Will Goodwin http://www.taylorsclematis.co.uk/clematis-will-goodwin.html and possibly a pink one will look good there too along with my Rosa glauca (thank you Fidget)   http://www.davidaustinroses.com/english/Showrose.asp?Showr=259 .

Any suggestions for other plants to go with these?

I'd quite like some height - something tall which would look good from the west facing window at sunset perhaps?  And I'd like something to give winter interest - maybe Cornus Midwinter Fire?

What do you think?

Oh, I forgot, there's also a Viburnum Bodnatense Charles Lamont to fit in somewhere image

 


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    You're right Verdun - exciting!!!  I like the sound of your ideas - will have to do some googling and drawing and colouring in image

    Can't find Taxus Coppershine - sounds lovely but can't find it anywhere on the web image


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    And Cornus alba aurea is one that I had been thinking of but couldn't remember it's name - I thought it would probably look good in the summer in front of the violet-blue of Clem. Daniel Deronda - but what to underplant with for the spring when it's been cut back ????


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  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Dove, no input from me, I've been poor at  planning, too many impulse buys. Things that I think look good together in this garden have arrived in location by luck.

     I've quite a few plants that need re-locating. Some will be going, which isn't something I'd have done before joining the forum and reading about all the lovely plants available. I used to try to like certain plants that I have because they had performed but now I appear to have become critical. image 

    Will really look forward to seeing your new bed as it developsimage

     

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    Verdun, I love frikarti monch - it's on my Wanted List - and I have geranium rozanne so can propagate that for the front garden image.  I don't know Verbena rigida, but having googled it looks fabulous.  And there might just be a space for hackonochloa  - and then of course, there's a certain dahlia to take pride of place image  That'll look good against something with dark bronzey-black foliage image

    It's really good to bounce these ideas around - there's so much choice - sharing ideas helps me to focus image


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