Front bed - design with roses. Your photos please?
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Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
7 years ago
Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
7 years agoI have roses planted in the beds next to my house . Up against the wall ( well spaced appropriately of course ) I have a row that goes lime light hydrangea , yellow knock out , lime light , yellow ko and lime light . In front of these staggered are white phlox , apricot drift in between to hide the legs . Also I have margarita twist ( I am pretty sure that's the name ) hostas in front of those . While I don't love ko roses they are excellent when you need something constant and sure ! I have a photo but it isn't good and I am not sure it's helpful because it is an early spring photo and dosnt show much . But man does that fresh mulch look great ! Haha!
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I'm stuck. Please give me your suggestions for the front yard.
Comments (5)Well, it depends. As Laag once said, the way that people take pictures tells you what scale they're thinking about, and I get the impression, therefore, that HunterGPT just wants plant suggestions, not overall design advice. Having typed my fingers raw a few times giving design advice to people who just want plant suggestions for the "design" they've already done, I can say to Hunter: don't take the big picture photos if you aren't interested in any advice regarding the big picture. It's your house, you can "design" the garden or not to your preferences. Sometimes people have trouble achieving or even developing their vision, and that's where a forum can be helpful. If you want plant suggestions, as I've also written times without number, your best bet is usually your local nursery. Because even if people across the continent exert themselves to suggest the perfect plant, either here or on the shrubs forum, all good ideas are wasted if the plants named are not in stock locally. If you want to use a forum for advice, then your regional forum may be best as those people may have a better idea what you can find locally. And I might also add that it happens that people ask for big picture photos, and then appear to never visit the thread again. So if you do it, be prepared to not get any response beyond the initial. Sometimes that may be because there are actually no design issues, just plant selection, suggesting again that this forum isn't your best place for plant suggestions. Finally, your shrubs will grow. I am just reading a book on landscape design by Joe Eck, and just finished a section he calls "Time." In this he talks about how the maturing garden (in this I substitute the words "yard" or "landscape") becomes shadier, for one thing, and for another, can accommodate fewer plants due to root competition and growth. So do not panic, time is on your side, especially with a Vitex in the picture! I love my Vitex, but the thing can put on major mass every year. KarinL...See MoreCan you show me your rose beds (or, where do you plant your roses
Comments (34)CI, TZ, SdlM all growing nicely now. I think this will be a good fragrance bed. I put Lion's rose in the back to add beauty and a good leafy background even though it isn't much on scent. I think if the base gets shaded by the others, it won't get disease. There's room to the right of Abe Darby for one more big rose. I think it's going to be Evelyn. Hopefully, it will work some magic for me. This is a good morning sun spot and gets shade in the hottest times of the day. My summer is a little hotter than Hoovb's but maybe it's close enough. I'm going to hope for the best. The only downside to this location is that it will take the full force of the Santa Ana wind from across the street. We are along the Santa Ana river channel and the wind blows strongly through the gap. It seems to be shifting later than Halloween now. I used to call it the Halloween Wind....See MorePlease help me design a new bed(s) for my front yard
Comments (20)I remember how difficult it is to get started when you have a bare, flat yard. I kept staring out the windows, trying to imagine what I could plant where. It helps if you have someone stand outside while you look out the windows. Have your helper walk around from place to place, waving his/her arms, and maybe even holding a broom up overhead. Try to imagine your helper is a bush or a tree. When your helper gets to a spot that looks good from the inside, make a note of the position, or have your helper plant a garden stake (much easier to move than a tree!) Then go stand outside, or across the street, and see if that really is a good place for a tree. Use pots of annuals which you can move around until you find a space placement that suits you. THEN dig a bed. You can always set out empty boxes, or laundry baskets or even chairs to find spots for a shrub. Anything of a similar size that's easily movable will do. Here are some general principals I've found helpful. If the front is your main entrance, plant things that you will be happy to see when you come home. Start planting close to the walk and steps. This will encourage you to expand. Take it slow. I read once that you should live in a house though one set of seasons before you do any major changes. I translated that into planting annuals at first...which will have to be redone anyway. Fall is really the best time to plant trees and shrubs, as then they will get lots of rain. And, they will be cheaper at the 'year end' sales. Plant evergreens and long season perennials in the front as you and the neighbors will be looking at this area every day. Don't be afraid to take out something you don't like. Try to transplant it, or give it away. If it lives, fine, but you don't have to put up with something you don't like. Bare ground will make you feel better than a plant that irriates you. Don't plant acid loving plants close to the foundation of the house or near the cement path or sidewalk. They won't thrive. I figured this out after losing a row of azaleas, one by one. You can buy spray paint that is specially made to be sprayed holding the can upside down, so you can mark the edges of the beds. Just make sure that it isn't 'clear' paint. (Yes, it does come that way - a friend did this!) Or take a container of flour out and use that to mark plant placement or bed edges if you want a very temporary marking. The front yard is your house's public face and a place to show off your gardening skills. Rather than screening off the street, plant so that people driving or walking by will have something pleasant to look at and your visitors will find inviting. And for safety reasons, you don't want to 'hide' your house. Burglars go for entrances that are screened off from the view of the neighbors. Re paths: Make sure you leave good access to the utility boxes. Make sure you can get a lawnmower and wheelbarrow everywhere they'll need to go. You won't want low branching trees too near paths, either. If you don't have a pleasant view out the windows, one small patch of bright color will draw your eye away from the eyesore. Try a few pots of color, just set out on the ground, and see how they draw your attention. You do want to 'hide' the foundation of the house with taller, more solid shrubs. This will help transition the house into the lot, and help it look 'planted' rather than just 'plopped' onto the lot. Place lower plants further away from the house, along the path and sidewalk. You don't have to have ANY lawn in the front, but you don't have to take it all out at once, either. Have fun! Daphne in Tacoma...See MorePlease share photos of your rose garden
Comments (59)Here's some of ours. We now have 112 roses (and we have small yards!), some are waiting to be planted. Hey, there are roses that are even shade tolerant, even ones that can climb up a tree! As seen from walking on the sidewalk: Front view: For more pics of our sides, front and back yards and more rose-y pictures too, Check out my Picture Trail: careytearose Here is a link that might be useful: look in the Landscaping Projects 2007 and Favorite ROSES we grow albums...See More
portlandmysteryrose
7 years agoI'm a big fan of hardy geraniums under and around roses. Some are hardy to zone 3-4. They coexist well with rose roots and come in shades of pink, purple, blue and white. I have a few embarrassingly poor quality iPhone photos of mixed geraniums. I'll attach one to give you an idea of the habit. Carol
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoLilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
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Dawn Marie
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7 years agoDawn Marie and Lilyfinch, thanks so much for your kind words! Lilyfinch, unfortunately I have very few pictures of my garden, as I'm a rotten photographer. This one was taken by very talented DH, but I hate to nag him to take pictures. I'm working on my photo skills, however, and will try to take more in spring. This fall I took some not-bad ones of Mel's Heritage on my IPad, which I posted on some thread not that long ago.
Dawn Marie, I bet anything you can get your yard looking like this before too long! The main thing is to allow yourself some excess, I cram things in closer than they are supposed to be, and they do fine. Also, get yourself some good re-seeders like dame's violet - I love them, and they volunteer everywhere. Once you get them going, they'll pop up all over the place - you may even get to the point where you have to pull some out to give away, lol! I think they go a long way towards blending the roses together, plus that lovely lavender color goes with almost everything. The digitalis and delphiniums are a bit more work, as you have to start them indoors early, but are well worth it (also, with digitals, be sure to get kinds like Foxy that bloom from seed the first year). A good source for relatively cheap perennials (like the veronica) is Bluestone perennials.
But here are just two more; first one of my favorite Austins, The Herbalist, with some friendly dame's violets:
And here's Peggy Martin on our pergola (I wish it showed the whole structure but oh well):Good luck!
debbym, Tempe, AZ Zone 9
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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
7 years agoFrances, your garden is sublimely beautiful. I imagine having plentiful rain and hopefully good soil is a help to you, but I give you 99% of the credit. At least half of the beauty is the harmonious and soft color palette you've chosen, which is often a stumbling block for gardeners.
My picture is from 2008 because it's one of the view that shows lots of different companion plants. Unfortunately most did not survive, probably due to my ignorance. Later pictures show a vastly different and simplified plan. Perhaps I'll post that too just as an example of how a garden can change drastically over the years. The drought and roses lost to that and canker have made for quite a change.
Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
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7 years agoportlandmysteryrose
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoJust to illustrate ideas, I'll attach a couple more photos. Two are simply roses and companions awaiting installation and residing in nursery pots.
Below is Midnight Blue with blue annual lobelia, but Veronica 'Georgia Blue' would produce similar results. Or Geranium 'Rozanne' or 'Johnson Blue'.
Roses also shine when planted with similar colors. Once again, Midnight Blue with Hemerocallis 'Little Grapette' and a Japanese painted fern awaiting installation in a morning sun only bed.
Duchesse de Brabant is in a bed with a variegated dogwood. Cornus 'Ivory Halo' can serve as a smaller, red twig foundation shrub, and I'm a fan of pink, purple or red roses commingling with green and white. Carol
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mustbnuts zone 9 sunset 9
7 years agoEveryone's gardens are just stunning! So beautiful!
I have a narrow walkway planted with several roses, blue iris, salvia, laurentia, day lilies, etc. It gets the brunt of the sun all day long as well as the reflection of my house and white fence.
This is the walkway standing at my front porch.
Here is the opposite view standing at the bottom of the walkway looking at the front porch.
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Carolina Girl (Zone 8b)
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoWhat is this Rose?? Its color is spectacular!
Oh, now I see you said it was Ebb Tide...It would help if I actually read a post thoroughly instead of ogling at the beautiful purple color of the rose! <wipes up drool>
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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