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Trees
Trees are regarded as an essential and beautiful ingredient in any garden. Trees can provide height, structure, leaf shape, flowers, fruit, seasonal colour, bark colour and texture, etc and are beneficial to the environment and encourage and nurture wildlife.
Careful selection of your trees is vital as some species can grow to a large size and the wrong choice of tree could lead to possible structural damage if planted close to buildings or to outdoor structures, etc. Problems can also occur when trees shade the natural light offered to nearby buildings and windows. Drainage problems and boundary issues with neighbours can be a downside to tree planting. Most problems can be avoided... |
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Shrubs
Shrubs are deciduous or evergreen woody plants smaller than ornamental trees and much larger than ground covering plants. Usually standing less than 5m high (15ft), and often have multiple stems which can also be coloured. When one looks out at a garden the shrubs is often the first plant to be noticed, with bright coloured and well defined leaves and available in a wide variety of sizes, colours and shapes available from the majestic to the miniature. |
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Grasses
Ornamental grasses are unique in relation to most other outdoor garden perennials. Grasses can be brightly coloured, strong and dark or pale and neutral, large or small, minimal or dense. Grasses offer a wealth of beauty and texture and many species tend to change in appearance throughout the seasons.
Grasses also provide interesting sounds and wonderful movement within a garden. When breezes blow through them they offer a lovely, gentle rustling sound and their shape and stature can often reflect the shapes of the breezes that blow through them. Ornamental grasses surpass other garden planting for their luminescence and their flowers and foliage are most often dramatic when... |
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Herbaceous Planting
The must have in every garden. Herbaceous perennials provide colour and interest from early spring until late autumn and even into early winter. If they aren't cut back old seed heads and stems covered in early winter frost can look fantastic. Herbaceous plants bring out the artist in all of us with their varied shapes, colours and heights.
The herbaceous perennial is defined as a non-woody plant that dies back to the ground each year but the root systems remain alive and lie dormant until spring. The amazing thing about herbaceous plants is their rapid growth over one season. If planted in late autumn they flower either early spring or late summer providing an instant and mature ou... |
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Climbers
Climbing plants can be either annual or perennial. Some species are self-climbing whilst others require supports. Climbing plants provide versatile and attractive screening, for any garden and offer a wide range of flowers, lovely foliage shapes, autumn colours and/or evergreen effects. Climbers can be planted and seen to their best effects near walls, colonnades, trellis, pergolas, walkways and arches and can provide lovely dappled shading effects over sunny terraces and balconies when required.
Climbers are an indispensable and versatile plant for most garden areas. Without climbers we would not be able to soften the often hard lines of architecture and offer a versatile camouflag... |
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Roses
Roses have been cultivated and treasured for centuries. Their beautiful flowers, petals and fragrance have inspired and been admired the world over. To discuss roses in great detail would take many pages so we will aim to cover the basics of roses in a modern garden. The information may not include details of how you may have traditionally regarded roses, planted together in one planting bed in strict varieties etc, but we would plant them in conjunction with other plants in mixed borders to produce colour and scent over the summer months. |
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