Get The Garden Of Your Dreams!
This week I’m giving you a few tips to help you pick the best plants to work together in your garden!
I've broken down this advice into 4 simple tips to help you plan and plant your containers and borders!
1. Height
Height is super important to your containers, especially if you want to avoid your displays looking flat. Placing your largest plants at the back, and gradually planting shorter plants the closer to the front you get will provide not only a more natural tapered look, but also means that all your favourite plants will be able to shine!
Remember: even when planting a round container, there is likely going to be a "front" and "back", so make sure to plan for a gradual decrease in height!
2. Foliage
Flowers aren't the only colour that will be filling your garden. Foliage colour is not only important to think about to avoid clashes, but can also provide evergreen colour to your displays when your plants are out of season! Some plants are great to plant for their foliage alone, so make sure to consider what your displays will look like without flowers!
3. Colour
It may seem obvious, but planning for the colour of your plants is crucial to making sure the display works! It's easy to just pick your favourite plants and plant them up, but this is a quick way to have a mismatched collection of colours and shapes!
An easy way to avoid having an random assortment of colours stuck together is to plan for a colour palette. Picking a handful of complimentary colours and sticking to them will make your displays look more uniform, and avoid too many clashing colours!
4. Flowering Time
This is possibly the most important tip of the four! Planning for flowering seasons is important, and offers you the chance to do one of two things. If you're prepared to regularly refresh your garden, then utilising plants that flower at a similar time will create a burst of seasonal colour, full of flowers, however this will only last for as long as the planting season you have planned for it.
Alternatively, you can utilise plants with a handful of differing flowering seasons to create a longer lasting display, with a slower tapering of flowers. This approach will make for a less full display at any one time, however will make each individual display last longer before needing a refresh!
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