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sunnyday1234

hi Guys

I am going planting a mixture of flowers in a 1m x 15m kerbing just inside my wall. I was going to plant roses but now my wife thinks a mixture might be better

Is there any advice you can give me with regard to what flowers i can mix ? can i plant two rose bushes and then other flowers too ?

Any suggestion on good top soil and compost to buy also ?

Thanks

Sonnenblumen

sunnyday1234 wrote: »

hi Guys

I am going planting a mixture of flowers in a 1m x 15m kerbing just inside my wall. I was going to plant roses but now my wife thinks a mixture might be better

Is there any advice you can give me with regard to what flowers i can mix ? can i plant two rose bushes and then other flowers too ?

Any suggestion on good top soil and compost to buy also ?

Thanks

Such a small border you'd be better to buy some bags of clean topsoil and compost in your local garden centre. There's no rule to say one cannot plant a mixed border, in fact it is a very popular choice, one needs to select the companion plants carefully so as not to encroach on the rose bushes. An alternative to rose bushes is of course rose standards and one could do a very nice formal/informal display with a mix of low growing shrubs & herbaceous perennials with vertical interest provided by eg 3 rose standards.

cena

25kg bags of top soil going on sale in Lidl or aldi on monday. Less then 4 euro I think

Roselm

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Such a small border you'd be better to buy some bags of clean topsoil and compost in your local garden centre. There's no rule to say one cannot plant a mixed border, in fact it is a very popular choice, one needs to select the companion plants carefully so as not to encroach on the rose bushes. An alternative to rose bushes is of course rose standards and one could do a very nice formal/informal display with a mix of low growing shrubs & herbaceous perennials with vertical interest provided by eg 3 rose standards.

Absolutely. Check height, width and flowering months for any plants you're thinking of so you can try and get flowers there for as long as possible.
I would always go for perennials/shrubs over annuals (annuals only last one year and then die so you have to keep buying more each year. Perennials will die down temporarily in winter and grow back in the spring. The labels on the plants will tell you which they are)

sunnyday1234

cena wrote: »

25kg bags of top soil going on sale in Lidl or aldi on monday. Less then 4 euro I think

thanks for this

sunnyday1234

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Such a small border you'd be better to buy some bags of clean topsoil and compost in your local garden centre. There's no rule to say one cannot plant a mixed border, in fact it is a very popular choice, one needs to select the companion plants carefully so as not to encroach on the rose bushes. An alternative to rose bushes is of course rose standards and one could do a very nice formal/informal display with a mix of low growing shrubs & herbaceous perennials with vertical interest provided by eg 3 rose standards.

gone very complicated there now :-). I like the look of the rose standards , thanks for that idea. So i could have 3 of those and then a mixture of shrubs in between ?


There is already soil there, its just poor on top with some weeds and moss - i presume i just need to use a garden fork to mix the soil, remove the weeds and fill in with top soil / compost ?

its actually 4 foot wide by 44 feet long

Applepie15

Sorry to hijack your post.

I have a few ton of topsoil dug from my back garden as I'm redeveloping it and would like to pass it on to people who might make use of it rather than skip it.

If interested let me know.