Hallo zusammen,
Ich bin hier der neue Hausbesitzer mit meinem allerersten Garten. Eigentlich liebe ich Gartenarbeit, kenne mich aber nicht besonders gut mit dem Thema aus. Der Zaun dient als temporärer Welpenschutz 🙄.
Ich möchte dieses Beet mit vorzugsweise hundesicheren Stauden füllen. Bisher habe ich unten einen kalifornischen Flieder, zwei englische Lavendelblüten, drei Fuchsien und einen Salbei gepflanzt.
Offensichtlich ist der Boden trocken, obwohl ich täglich gegossen habe, entwässert er recht gut und das Beet bekommt volle Sonne. Gerne füge ich pflanzenspezifischen Kompost usw. hinzu.
Ich denke an eine orangefarbene Kletterrose etwa in der Mitte.
Lassen Sie mich wissen, was Ihrer Meinung nach dies gut ergänzen würde.
Von: Dusk-Prophet
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This is going to look great!
I’ve got a similar safe border with salvias, scabius, verbena, geums and nepeta (3 of each)
All are dog safe (I think)
Campanulas are great for volume. They almost grow as weeds in many fronts gardens around me, but still single plants that create a solid, low level body of attractive flowers and foliage.
Separately given the wave you have there, I’d find it irresistible to put a different dwarf fruit tree in the middle of each space.
What’s your budget? Gardens take a while to establish so if you’ve got some money then try and go a bit big from the outset as it’ll take couple of years to get there.
Looking at that soil the first thing I’d do is buy probably 10-15 bags of multi purpose compost and put it down and turn it in.
I’d buy more than one climbing rose against the fence at the back. Maybe 3 should be a good start. For easy maintenance with less chance of dying I’d buys a couple of different varieties of peonies. Couple of hostas. Couple of Lupins. I think one azalea. One rhodedenron. Couple of sebums. And at the borders near the grass lots of bulbs.
Have a look at Rosy Hardy Gardening for planting plans. https://hardysplants.co.uk/blogs/rosys-planting-plans
She had a brilliant YouTube channel if you want to look at different planting ideas, plant care and design ideas.
In that border you may want to add mulch to stop the water evaporating too much. It will also make weeding easier.
To add year long interest add spring and autumn flowering bulbs along with perennials and evergreens. Trees are good to add height and shade but look carefully how big they get. Bare root perennials in spring are a really cheap way of planting, I’ve found Farmer Gracy really good.
The most important thing to remember is to only plant plants that like the conditions you have, otherwise they will not thrive.
I’d say mix top soil and some manure, much better for the ground than the current mess that is multipurpose compost. After all the worms will do the work and draw down the nutrients from all that organic matter. And if you top dress with a mix of topsoil and compost in the following years it will keep improving.
My only question is make sure it’s at least 90cm wide to have space for plants to grow to a good size without getting squashed.
Put some climbers up against that fence! Clematis and honeysuckle will fill in the space around your orange climbing rose beautifully.
I agree a climbing rose makes sense and ground cover plants will help the soil retain water. You’re on the right track with salvias and lavender they cope well with dry sun.
I find perennial geranium fill out nicely and offer good soil cover. You could also try forget-me not but it’s more seasonal and looks a bit rubbish at the end of summer. I love wild ginger but it would be expensive to fill a bed with it. Erigeron (fleabane, or Mexican daisy) also would work but are a bit taller and might drown your smaller plants.
Get a load of daffodil, tulip, crocus, snowdrop bulbs in before you fill the space. Lovely to see early spring bulbs come up
Try to think about colours that go well together. Took me a long time to learn that, my first beds were a riot of colour, like a kid’s painting. If you want an orange rose, think what may pair well with that colour – purples, maybe yellow etc
I’d widen that whole border by at least a foot, you’ll not be able to layer plants in a border of that size, especially where it’s nearest fence, if you put a shrub in there to grow say 4-5ft tall it’s going to grow outwards too and overhang that grass and by default kill what’s under its growth due to no sun.
What aspect is your border you don’t say? Facing south? North? Makes a massive difference to what you can grow so without that info nobody on here can advise anything TBH
If you grow sun loving plants and it’s largely in shade they’ll grow leggy, if you grow shade loving plants in full all day sun they’ll cook and die.
Do some research before sticking any random plant in there, you’ll save a fortune in lost plants.