Panting roses in a mixed border is one of the easiest ways of enjoying roses in your garden. Combine shrub roses, other shrubs, perennials and annuals to create a tapestry of different colours and textures - find inspiration in our image gallery and tips and tricks for planning a rose border.
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June 29, 2017 Make Your Garden Magical This Summer Designing and owning a magical home space is often something we as parents dream of, but it’s much harder to implement in reality. This almost goes without saying. We can imagine the Disney princesses of fame having to maintain the golden gardens they usually achieve at the end of their tales, and the fantasy usually falls. Of course, it’s not impossible to achieve, especially when it comes to our gardens. The summer is proving to be better than ever from a weather perspective, and we’d be silly to ignore the potential that can bring. You might have been thinking about starting some home developments lately, but the heat and summer sun has made any progress on this front stifle just a little bit. Why not develop your garden? It’s often the place that people ignore the most when it comes to home renovation, but some tasteful additions and maintenance can arguably make it look better than any inside room could. Not only that, but you'll be able to craft your outdoor space into a magical place for your kids, where they can bring friends around, and you can entertain in the evening. Here are a few handy tips to make your garden look magical, just as it deserves. Outdoor Lighting Outdoor lighting allows for a range of subtle setups and allows you to implement various ‘themes’ around the area that can blossom at different times of day. For example, having weather resistant moon candles that can change their color by remote control can help you add a sense of visual variance depending on what mood you’re in that evening. It’s not hard to imagine that a deep purple lighting can bring your garden the aura of mystery that can make it look simply divine. If you want to make your garden look even more magical, why not line the garden pathways from your door with this lighting? At night, you can believe that the whole outdoor space will transform into a gorgeous fantasy setting. A Fairy Pond Why not build a pond in your garden space? If you already have one, having it maintained and cleaned and maybe placing some decoration around it, or keeping appropriate fish depending on water acidity, and temperature can help give your garden that ‘alive,’ feel. To keep the pond a regular fixture that you don’t give up on after a month or two, it’s important to learn about and purchase the correct pond maintenance equipment. Click here to learn more research some of the best apparatus to help you do this. Regal Pathways A woman’s home is her castle, and as far as you’re concerned, within its borders, you are the ruling monarch. Why not implement ‘regal pathways’ that look gorgeous, and have a spark of creativity? You might achieve this by creatively applying mismatched, broken terracotta slabs and embedding them into the garden space. They could run for your outdoor patio area down the length of the garden so muddy grass can be avoided in bad weather if needs be. A monarch must have her requirements, after all. It’s always fun to add a touch of fantasy in your daily life. Why should that be different when it comes to your home? All pictures and links to be found HERE. Love Happy x on June 29, 2017 Share this! Tags garden Newer Post Newer Post Older Post Older Post
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In my area, the garden tour season kicks off with the annual Canadian Cancer Society Tour in late May. Not only does the tour support a worthy cause, it is a wonderful opportunity to see local gardens in all their late spring splendour. Today I want to share with you a garden that was a standout on last year's tour. The lot runs wide to the road and so it was hard to get everything in a single shot. This is a view of the central portion of the front garden. In the beginning, Liz Maliki inherited a builder's beige front garden with a few rather nondescript planting beds and some basic hardscaping. What she really wanted was a garden with interesting sight lines, texture, color and a full four seasons of interest. To determine a new layout for her garden, Liz stood at the front of the house in the dead of winter, when there are less visual distractions from foliage and flowers, and devised her plan. The lot she had to work with was a wide rectangle that sloped gently down to the road. Though the plantings were initially unspectacular, Liz was lucky to have inherited some mature trees including some pines and a red maple. In her new design, Liz incorporated a sweeping series of curved flowerbeds, a fresh mix of plants, and new pathway leading to the entrance to the house. Let's take a look at this pretty garden over twenty years in the making and still evolving to this day: Everywhere you look there are beautiful combinations of color and texture. Even when there is little in bloom, this planting bed will still be colorful. Here we are looking at the same bed as in the previous shot, but this time from the opposite angle. The pink flower in the middle foreground is the Tree Peony in the next shot. Tree Peony A closer look at that mix of perennials and shrubs including hosta, blue and golden colored evergreens, a maroon colored Barberry bush, a golden colored Heuchera (to the left of the Barberry) and Zebra grass (middle foreground). Most of the planting beds can be viewed from both sides and a variety of perspectives. The plantings are not stepped in the traditional way: shorter perennials in front, intermediate and then taller perennials at the back. Instead, Liz has made a point of keeping sight lines visually appealing by varying plant heights like notes in a musical score. A few of the perennials in this bed are hightlighted below: a mix of Heuchera (top right), Hosta (left) the unexpected use of Chives (lower left) and a creamy yellow Tree Peony (lower right). Hostas aren't ordinary when you combine a bright, lime-colored cultivar, a deeply-ribbed, solid green one and bookend them with two variegated varieties. What I think Liz has created here is visual music. The busier variegation of the Euonymous is like the lively notes of a violin singing above the deep, mellow notes of a chello or base, which in this case, are the big-leafed hostas. This is the walkway leading to the front door. On the left, boxwood frames a flowerbed filled with Rhododendrons, Euonymus, a Korean Lilac (on the left edge of the picture). And this is a portion of the flowerbed on the opposite side of the front walkway. Two final pictures of the front walkway. That is a pink Weigela cascading down into the picture frame on the right. In this detail shot, Liz has planted a combination of Hosta, Heather (lower left) pink Azalea and a Spirea (lower right corner). In the next post, we will head into the back garden. More Information and Links: Here are all the details you need to know to attend this year's Canadian Cancer Society Tour. I am going to link this post with the Garden Party at Fishtailcottage and to Fertilizer Friday at Tootsie Time.
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