Bob
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Having recently moved house to somewhere with a large blank canvas of a garden I'm fining myself in need of some inspiration.
This weekend has been spent fencing off a dog, horse and vehicle free area for the kids to play, then an area off this for 'my garden' I'm planning on a small patio outside the living room French doors and then I want a gravel footpath through the middle and loads and loads of flowers, this area will have sun all day and I'm going for a real cottage garden theme, some raised beds and some low level areas, Grecian urns, Belfast sinks and old farm implements thrown in for good measure placed sporadically.
I know what I want but what I don't know is my daffodil from my buddleia - ok so I know those two but on the green fingered scale I'm a purple. I want traditional but interesting, a load of rosebushes don't do it for me. I want hardy annuals with spread, different colours, different heights and I want lots of them, I've got quite a big area and I want it full.
Ideas of what I should be buying would be greatly appreciated.
This weekend has been spent fencing off a dog, horse and vehicle free area for the kids to play, then an area off this for 'my garden' I'm planning on a small patio outside the living room French doors and then I want a gravel footpath through the middle and loads and loads of flowers, this area will have sun all day and I'm going for a real cottage garden theme, some raised beds and some low level areas, Grecian urns, Belfast sinks and old farm implements thrown in for good measure placed sporadically.
I know what I want but what I don't know is my daffodil from my buddleia - ok so I know those two but on the green fingered scale I'm a purple. I want traditional but interesting, a load of rosebushes don't do it for me. I want hardy annuals with spread, different colours, different heights and I want lots of them, I've got quite a big area and I want it full.
Ideas of what I should be buying would be greatly appreciated.