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and summer /autumn perennials so that they come up in between the permenant shrubs and plants. Because of the concrete, I'm now thinking I may have to resort to building a raised bed, so I'm trying to work out how deep this will need to be. I've read

online I generally find Crocus good. They are good quality, large plants. With herbaceous plants I've often managed to split them into 2 or 3. If possible though I use my local garden centres. Use them or lose them marigold, I suggest you wait and see how

, detest bedding with a passion....mainly for the reason's you stated. I prefer to grow perennials from seed and watch them grown into strong mature plants over the years. I tend to fill up with cosmos and california poppies where possible, but inevitably

' that is made up of branches that have been pruned from trees and shrubs and garden organically. I leave some leaves on the flower beds and don't cut down all the spent hardy herbaceous plants and many would say that my garden is far from tidy. I do have a

Hi there ! The photos below taken 06 June 2012 show a herbaceous plant which looks lovely each year - we have lived in our present home for 3 years now. I have no idea what the plant is and nor do any of our neighbours. It does not seem

tried it? I cleared a bed of old roses and herbaceous perennials of ground elder by planting geranium endressii - probably "wargrave pink".It grows so rampantly that it will smother and kill most weeds.Even nettles struggle to compete with it.It would

with their own little circle of earth around them, but they have to keep weeding. I like a mixture of shrubs,annuals and perennials and climbers for all seasons, with a small patch for a few veg.. There's never a time with no colour in my garden, even

to get in there. I've also got several of my shrubs tightly clipped - things like golden spirea and potentillas work well. That stops light penetrating and keeps things weed free round their feet. Shows off the blowsier, freer herbaceous stuff in between

half of them do well, you'll still have got your money's worth. For the longer term, you want to look out for herbaceous perennials that will come up every year - things like lupins, chrysanthemums, peonies, delphiniums, spreading geraniums (not the red

My garden is tiny, just four-metres squared. I've got a very small lawn area (at my partner's insistence). I'm hoping to make the lawn smaller, and circular, to make the garden look bigger, and plant shrubs and herbaceous perennials around it. Has