Planting List for the entire garden - pt 2

Exotic &Southern Hemisphere garden on the upper deck area

Cordyline australis (Patio palm)

Olea europaea standard ( Olive trees)

Phyllostachys aureosulcata  (2 Bamboo)

Gunnera manicata

Fatsia japonica

Beschorneria septentrionalis

Stone gothic style planter

Yucca flaccida ‘Silver Sword’

Hakonechloa macro ‘Alboaurea’ (Striped grass)

Large terracotta planters left of garden door

Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’ (Black elderflower)

Carex ‘Milk Chocolate’

Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’

Acanthus ‘Summer Beauty’

Pergola at top of staircase

Lonicera japonica ‘Halls Prolific’ (Evergreen Honeysuckle)

Clematis cirrhosa ‘Wisley Cream’ (Evergreen winter flowering)

Jasmine: Jasminum Stephanense

Clematis: ‘Madame Edouard Andre’

Hanging baskets each side of house door

(These are regularly replanted to provide seasonal interest)

Nemesia ‘Blue Lagoon’

Nemesia ‘Royal Purple’

Bacopa ‘Snowflake’

Petunia ‘Hurrah Carmine’

Trailing Verbena ‘Magelana Scarlet’

Upper deck rear wall

Collection of Buxus sempervirens

 (Topiary spheres in pots)

Planting List tips

When buying new plants, choose the younger, less expensive plants.

Those larger, more mature plants may provide instant landscape gratification, but in the long run they will take longer to acclimate to the new environment, and can be very costly to replace if they fail.

If you really want that mature look ‘now’ try planting annuals between younger shrubs and perennials will help fill in those gaps.

"There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals."    ~ John Ruskin, 1851

"Être is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals." - John Ruskin, 1851

"Gardening is something you learn by doing - and by making mistakes, like cooking, gardening is a constant process of experimentation, repeating the successes and throwing out the failures."   ~  Carol Stocker,

Make a plan before visiting the garden centre.

Do try and keep to your list - buying something on impulse may mean spending weeks trying to make it ‘fit in’.

Do keep all labels - you will need them to find out how to fertilise, prune, water, etc

(and to remember what that plant in the corner that everyone likes actually is!)