I was having a problem coming up with a good design for my one landscape project. However this morning while paging through a older gardening magazine there are a perennial plant description which gave me an idea.
So............
This is the idea. The space is 8 ft wide by 32 feet long. It has a 9 foot sign and lights towards one end and a flagpole in the middle. What I was thinking of is using this lower growing blue flowering perennial designing it like a river. Maybe a smaller mound by the flagpole to have the "water climb" I would start near one corner and while I cant weave to other corner I can come close. Just a gentle "S" curve. Then using this planting as a "river" plant some lower growing shrubs near the flagpole and use other perennials along the "rivers edge"!!!! Does this make sense???
Also for another client who has this very tall metal windmill in her yard-well a 6 ft plantings looks way too small so 12 ft is better and I was going to plant "crops" in rows around the three sides. Like broom corn, sunflowers, ornamental corn, cosmos and zinnas. As this is a retired dairy farmer I thought the crop theme was good-plus she likes it!!
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I don't have a problem picking out the plants just if the design sounds good or not!!
So............
This is the idea. The space is 8 ft wide by 32 feet long. It has a 9 foot sign and lights towards one end and a flagpole in the middle. What I was thinking of is using this lower growing blue flowering perennial designing it like a river. Maybe a smaller mound by the flagpole to have the "water climb" I would start near one corner and while I cant weave to other corner I can come close. Just a gentle "S" curve. Then using this planting as a "river" plant some lower growing shrubs near the flagpole and use other perennials along the "rivers edge"!!!! Does this make sense???
Also for another client who has this very tall metal windmill in her yard-well a 6 ft plantings looks way too small so 12 ft is better and I was going to plant "crops" in rows around the three sides. Like broom corn, sunflowers, ornamental corn, cosmos and zinnas. As this is a retired dairy farmer I thought the crop theme was good-plus she likes it!!
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I don't have a problem picking out the plants just if the design sounds good or not!!