Help with garden/plants/flowers please!

ixwood

This thread is a good advertisement for choosing hardy perennials over gaudy bedding plants, that only last a season.

The transformation in before and after pics is amazing.

heynonnynonny

Stunning, thanks for posting the pictures we all love these picture threads!! Lots of gorgeous colour.

Lotus-eater

shellsuit wrote: »

But I like the colour in the garden

We could grow some right at the back, next to the shed behind that big rose thing, there's nothing there at the moment, it just needs a good tidy.

Ornamental kitchen gardens. Plant stuff amongst the flowers. It's like I tell anyone who says they want to grow their own but "I can't find the space!", they yell.
If you wanted to grow it, you'd find the space.

valleyboy74

your strawberries look like wild strawberries, still good to eat, we have them growing like crazy near an old railwayline near my house ;-) gorgeous garden you have there.

wssla00

I think there might be some Aubretia too (the purple flower stuff) that is a plant from my childhood. I do love it!

Money_maker

Nice colours. In photo 6 I can also see aquilegia (leaves only, flowers are finished), what looks like a choisya, campanula and dianthus. More aquilegia in photo 8 with some deadnettles (cant remember the latin name).

delmar39

I cannot help that much either but echo the post above - it looks great. You've done a good job with the grass and tidying up. Just note down the performance of all the plants during their first season so you know what to do. Not sure about pruning or cutting back, but looks like most of them will die down and then come back next season.

Durhamgill

A nice colourful patch.
I can see a Geranium in pic 3, thats the big plant with pink flowers near to the middle on the right hand side of the path. There's also a blue one somewhere too, could be Geranium "johnsons blue" or "magnificum".
Pic 6 with the yellow flowers, next to the choisya, is a Lysimachia.
Some of the blue coloured plants look like Gentian.
I would add some height to the border by digging out the middle section and add a mass of larger perenials such as Delphiniums or Digitalis.