Garden border ideas please

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Hi all, I managed to get my garden seeded a few months ago, its been hard work doing it all by hand but its looking lots better, I will be building an under cover decking area down by the shed and my 1.8 dish will be sitting on top of it along my home made tower for free banding,

What I am wanting is an easy to maintain border with lots of colour all/most year round, I have planted a hedge at the top of the garden and going to plant wild flowers at the back of the hedge, its just the border you can see in the pictures I would like looking nice,
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Mrs Ponti says that the grass looks nice.She says you need to start with some varigated evergreen shrubs.On the bank on the left
That is all that I can get out of her atm.:)
 
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Hi ponti mrs ponti thank you, well that's a start for us :-), our old house we only had a small garden and I decked it all, our previous home was a flat, so ive never done any gardening and a little lost,

I will look into the varigated evergreen and go and pick some up thanks again :-).
 
BTW I forgot to mention we have a south facing garden, the sun in the summer hits our back garden at about 7.30am until around 9pm.
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Nice garden:)

Do not plant shrubs that over time grow so high as to block sat. signals, especially near the shed.

Regards
 
If it all gets too much, try a Na Palm :wacko:
 
Lol T, I think it had one of them when we bought the house :(,

Thanks Skomedal, they will be nothing to stop my line of sight, here is the plan :)

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My Dad always used to recommend a good layer of crazy paving.....quite low maintenance I believe....
 
Try some Cotoneaster plants, look nice all year round and can be easily trimmed to hide the fence, but not be too full.
 
How do you keep the weeds out of the lawn?
I have a newly refurbed lawn too.
I wanted to utlise two-germ leaf weed killer, but the packet said "do not use within first season of seeding lawn".
So I'm looking at the dandelions and (worse) thistles multiply...
 
Thank you rolf I will take a look at them and pick some up,

@ st1 I am in the same boat pal, I have only just seeded mine, and can not put any weed killer down until next year, I do have lots of dots, it really should have been done now but I wanted to give it a good start and reseed now if it was necessary.
 
st1 said:
How do you keep the weeds out of the lawn?
I have a newly refurbed lawn too.
I wanted to utlise two-germ leaf weed killer, but the packet said "do not use within first season of seeding lawn".
So I'm looking at the dandelions and (worse) thistles multiply...
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A goat or two.

Dish site needs more cables running to it.
 
Plant vegetables in the borders, make the garden more useful than just something to look at... :D
 
How about joining gardeners world on line. Loads of info. You will have to be careful what you plant there due to shading and insuffient sunlight, but instead of having a narrow straight boarder how about a wavey one coming out further in different places to accommodate a better variety of shrubs and flowers. You can experiment with a hose pipe laid out until you get the look which is pleasing to you. This will also make the garden look bigger.
 
st1 said:
How do you keep the weeds out of the lawn?
I have a newly refurbed lawn too.
I wanted to utlise two-germ leaf weed killer, but the packet said "do not use within first season of seeding lawn".
So I'm looking at the dandelions and (worse) thistles multiply...
Click to expand...
Don't worry just keep cutting. Pull any big ones out by hand. Next year apply your evergreen 80 and in 3 weeks you should have no weeds and have really good root growth on your grass.
 
Very interesting! Looks much better than what we saw before. Can't really help with gardening, unless your ornaments are in form of satellite dishes!
 
What about this border ?borderblik.webp
 
Brilliant, at last something to do with obsolete equipment.:)
 
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