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What to plant in raised beds of modern garden?

Brian Fitzpatrick
4 years ago

What can i plant in mid-June that will look good/flower this summer?
Bay trees + something with some colour?

Thanks
Clueless gardener

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  • Ribena Drinker
    4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    For flowers:-

    Echinacea has lovely bright colours and is a perennial and they can tolerate an amount of drought which may be useful if you don't have irrigation in your beds.

    Knautia will give you pops of pinks, mauves and cerise colours on tall thin stems, which sway in the breeze.

    Agapanthus are stunning but they do take a little while to establish and flower well.

    Cosmos give bright cheerful flowers if you want quick colour, but as they're annuals they won't come back and Osteospermum will give you great colours, but they also tend to just be annuals or very tender.

    For year round colour with foliage plants, look at the many colours of heuchera or even some of the carex grasses.

    Comments (8)

    • smallpin
      4 years ago

      your garden looks great so far! I highly recommend geranium rozanne for the front of your beds. available in all garden centres, flowers for months and comes back every year. little or no deadheading needed. it's a great plant!

    • smallpin
      4 years ago

      verbena would look great at the back of your beds. really suits a modern garden. flowers for months, great for bees and butterflies and comes back every year. love it!

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      Adam Vetere Landscape and Garden Design
      4 years ago

      Try a modern perennial/prairie scheme:


      Pennisetum 'Red Buttons'

      Stipa tenuissima

      Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'

      Achillea ‘Terracotta’

      Verbena bonariensis

      Kniphofia 'Tawny King'

      Crocosmia 'Emily McKenzie'

      Verbena bonariensis


      This is primarily a summer scheme, but the grasses will give you interest in the winter.


      Good luck!

    • Jonathan
      4 years ago

      I like fatsia japonica for its glossy evergreen leaves, cordelyne for its architectural quality and colour, skimmia for its ornamental quality and cotinus for colour.

    • Brian Fitzpatrick
      Original Author
      4 years ago

      Thanks all. Will give it a go

    • Brian Fitzpatrick
      Original Author
      4 years ago

      Went for this in the end. Thanks

    • EE BB
      4 years ago

      It's lovely.

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