Hallo! Ich weiß nichts über Pflanzen, aber ich habe kürzlich dieses Haus mit diesen schönen Hochbeeten gekauft und möchte etwas pflanzen, das mir Freude bereitet, wenn ich nach draußen schaue.
Meine Frage ist also: Was würden Sie damit machen?
Das Bett auf dem ersten Foto bekommt im Frühling/Sommer morgens Sonne und nachmittags Schatten. Auf der rechten Seite habe ich eine Miniaturrose gepflanzt, die mir mein Nachbar geschenkt hat, aber der Rest ist leer.
Das Bett auf dem zweiten Foto ist nach Norden ausgerichtet und liegt das ganze Jahr über völlig im Schatten. Ich habe vor, den Busch unter dem Baum und die Kletterpflanze auf der linken Seite zu entfernen, sobald ich die richtigen Werkzeuge habe.
Sie scheinen wirklich gut zu entwässern, der Boden ist leicht und locker und es kommt nie zu Wasserverstopfungen.
Das Problem ist, dass ich kein Auto fahre und daher nicht persönlich zu Gartencentern gehen kann.
Ich habe mir Online-Shops angesehen, aber sie haben buchstäblich TAUSENDE Pflanzen auf Lager und es ist einfach überwältigend, dort zu stöbern, wenn man keine Ahnung hat, wonach man sucht.
Ich bin in der Nähe der schottischen Grenze, daher ist das Wetter schrecklich. Ständig viel Regen.
Ich habe Chatgpt verwendet, um die Betten zu entwerfen, aber es ist auch überwältigend und verwirrend, also dachte ich, ich frage hier mal nach.
Danke schön!!!
Von: Pacific_Blue
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You’ve got good bones there, and you’re in a perfect climate for a “small but lush” look. Let’s keep it stupid simple so you don’t get lost in plant catalogs.
For the sunnier bed with the little rose: think “low front, medium middle, taller at the fence”. Nearest the path, do a neat row of something easy and compact like thyme or creeping campanula so it spills a bit over the edge. Behind that, run 3 or 5 clumps of something that flowers for ages, like hardy geranium (Geranium Rozanne or Johnson’s Blue) or dwarf nepeta, those both love UK weather. At the back against the fence, add a couple of small shrubs or verticals: lavender if it is not too wet and exposed, or better yet hebe, spirea, or dwarf hydrangea. That gives you structure you can see from the window year round, with flowers from spring through autumn.
For the north facing, full shade bed, lean into woodland vibes. Skip anything that says “full sun” in the description. Do some evergreen structure at the back like 2 or 3 small ferns (Dryopteris or polystichum), plus maybe a small shade shrub like sarcococca or skimmia for winter scent and berries. In front of that, go with hostas or heucheras for leaf colour, then at the very front tuck in some spring bulbs (snowdrops, narcissus) and a few shade groundcovers like lamium or ajuga to knit it together. All of these are easy to buy online from UK nurseries, filter by “hardy perennial” and “shade” or “part shade” so you do not get annuals. If you want to play with layouts before you spend money, grab a quick phone pic of each bed and drop it into the GardenDream web tool, then drag plants around until it looks right from your window, it is a nice safety net so you do not panic buy a bunch of random stuff.
Depends what you want and where they are located. Front gardens normally lend themselves well to a more formal appearance, for example. And what do you want to do? Attract bees, produce nice smelling flowers?
North facing, given where you live, I’d go with ornamental ferns. They won’t mind the shade and can lend a formal or casual appearance, depending on variety. An acer sitting with them can often look nice. There’s several varieties of dwarf acers that will tolerate shade.
Semi-sun/shade, I’d go with lavender. Attracts bees and smells amazing. Again, can be presented in a formal manner, although it takes a bit of work, or you can let them go wild. I’d also put something in to climb up that fence. I have Boston Ivy which does really well and is breathtaking in Autumn.
Lavendar and ferns are both native to our area (I’m from the Lothians), so will thrive with minimal assistance.
I’d cover it with a good mulch, then go back inside and have a long think.
I’d want to know aspect to determine what will grow well. I’d want to what the soil is like and I’d also be thinking of which seeds, bulbs or plants to grow in it next year.
I would consider planting some native British plants that are adapted to the climate. Naturescape.co.uk is a good place to get them from which has a simpler collection if choice overwhelms you. The RHS website has a find a plant feature which I find quite useful.
What about some veg, onions, leeks and tatties. All hardy and should do well. Fruit too, Rhubarb, gooseberries, red currant?
We put dwarf sunflowers at the back of ours from seed and they were a great success and the bees loved them, birds too when it went to seed.
Start small with flowers plants if that’s how you go and you can add to it and shuffle things about if you don’t quite like the look.