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  • 04-02-2017 9:14pm
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    amytomjerry
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭


    Hi...I have recently moved my fruit bushes and trees to a new plot and now I am left with a rectangular plot of size 20 feet by 20 feet which is quite close to the kitchen. Anyway, what I am planning is putting in a circular patch of crazy paving for a table and chairs and surrounding it partly with a herb garden but I also wish to plant up other shrubs.

    The house is an old cottage and that's what I am trying to retain...keeping the quaint, quirky old time feel to it....

    Any suggestions of shrubs to plant would be most welcome...would love a little height included as do not want a flat planted area....colour and scent very important....I am just clueless really to know what to put in...

    Thanks to anyone who has suggestions...apppreciate it


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    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Some herbs will grow into good sized shrubs. Bay leaf can be particularly strong growing and there is one shrub I planted a few years back that is about 10foot tall. I have also seen examples of bay leaf grown into small trees. Rosemary can also get fairly tall but its better to keep it trimmed a bit as I have found some big branches can die back if it is allowed get too scraggly. Lavender could also be nice in the situation you describe and there are a number of different varieties to choose from including some that have longer stems to make more of an impact when they are flowering.


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    looksee
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    Can I tentitivly suggest that if you want an old fashioned cottage garden feel, sticking a paving circle into the middle of a 20' square will be unlikely to achieve that aim? Have a paved area certainly, and herbs, maybe a small tree or two, but keep it less geometric, or at least put your (square-ish?) paved area to one side and have it all a bit more hap-hazard looking?


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    Graces7
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    My rental is an old and very quaint and quirky one..

    At the south facing front there is a fair sized garden area with a large rock amidships. It has been neglected for years and just now I am watching as shoots start to emerge.. not tackling it until all is up

    The old cottage garden flowers are good; I see aquilegia already and this year I will be growing lupins as I was given seed.

    From the rock-hard cluster of fruit, there is a small flowering cherry. And yes re the herbs. I have a small rosemary and a lavender and a young tree lupin I raised from seed will e a feature.

    Pot marigolds also for base colour and maybe purple kale; all those old ardens mixed flowers and food.


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