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Garden Border

  • 16-05-2014 4:28pm
    #1
    K09
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    Hi,

    I am building a border along a wall. I am setting it 15inches from the wall.

    Any recommendations of what I should plant? Hedge maybe? Don't want anything much higher than half a metre either.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,678 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Which way does it face, does it get sun? What are you looking for, a tidy clipped hedge, something a bit more casual and mixed, flowers?


  • #3
    K09
    Registered Users Posts: 649 ✭✭✭K09


    looksee wrote: »
    Which way does it face, does it get sun? What are you looking for, a tidy clipped hedge, something a bit more casual and mixed, flowers?

    Hi, faces north east. Gets good sunshine in morning/afternoon.

    Open to suggestions really. It is a narrow border and don't want to go much higher than 1/2 a metre so maybe a hedge suits best?


  • #4
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,678 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I have a border that sounds remarkably like yours in aspect, and I have so far failed to grow two different hedges in it. So now I have given up and have planted alchemilla (spurge/ladies mantle), berginia, ferns, foxgloves and lilies of the valley. So far they are all doing well.


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