Pls help design my Cottage Garden - need feedback, help select plants
krishi_2008 jasmin
2 months ago
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Pls find my garden lay out attached. I have added my initial thoughts and selection of roses. Can you pls suggest alternate roses based on what you think would be a better color palatte..
-In the middle, I am planning to have a statue or fountain, as an inner circle with an outer circle walkway
-Thinking of 3 arbours with climbing roses
I already have a collection of DA roses as captured in the attached pic..pls suggest any ideas on re-arranging..and also other perennials to plant..
Other roses that I have
Sharifa Asma
Jubilee celebration
Boscobel
Second pic shows the entire yard, I want to fill the rest as a second phase (pls share ideas on that as well, if u can)
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Comments (5)Lots of good ideas already offered here. We are nuts for roses (count now over 100), and have cottage garden plants in a picket fence area in our front yard. We have no azaleas, and we want to add boxwood somewhere!! I also look at the Cottage Garden and both Roses forums, you'll find them very helpful. Love the David Austin roses, not been very happy overall with J&P roses. I would mix it up a bit, maybe two or three Austin varieties that compliment each other in color, maybe 3 of each one. The Renaissance roses are quite lovely too- ck out www.helpmefind.com and look up 'contains: "Renaissance"' in the rose search. Another favorite roses we grow is "Paul Bocuse"- a beautiful pink one. To see pics of our front and back gardens and landscaping, ck out my Picture Trail: careytearose Here is a link that might be useful: look at Landscaping Projects 2007, Favourite ROSES We Grow albums...See MoreManhattan Chef needs help selecting Vegetables to Plant
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2 months agolast modified: 2 months agoerasmus_gw agree that it's not looking like a cottage garden now with this plan..dao you have any suggestions or ideas to make it more informal the way cottage gardens are? :) thank you
added pics of roses :) to start imagining the color palette/schemeSBH is strawberry hills
Any other suggestions on climber roses on the arbour? like Don Juan or Tess which are red colored
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