Landscaping with Grasses = Unusual Spring Garden

I know, we all – you and me – are craving for the spring flowers. While looking for spring harbingers, despite, or maybe rather in addition to that, I found something else and would like to bring to your attention year-round attractive garden that looks magical even at this most difficult season, end of winter and beginning of spring.

I thought it was worthwhile to present this great example of a well planned plantings, attractive throughout the year, not only when the flowers appears.

See the pictures.

Late February and early March is one of the worst periods in the garden here in Poland, when visually nothing happens, and most plants are bare and sad. Look at this garden, do you find it not attractive?

A well-designed garden looks good throughout the year, such as this one. Though this is the beginning of March and in the gardens there is nothing, apart from the first small harbingers of spring in warmer regions of the country, this garden looks attractive.

The combination of evergreens (boxwood, pachysandra, moss) with deciduous plants (grasses, geraniums, shrubs) gave a unique effect. In December and January, the dried grasses are beautifully rustling in the wind.

Hooray for designers!

If they would add some spring bulbs, I would be completely satisfied.

As the legendary Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf said, you need to plan planting not according to the way they are flowering but the way they are dying. Why? Because most of them are dead for most of their life cycle.

You can admire this great landscape at Qbik in Warsaw, Poland.

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Low maintenance succulent vertical garden

For those seeking illusive no maintenance garden, low maintenance is the solution.

While seeking ideas for current project I am working on, which is designing green in the office, I found those adorable photos.
Idea of vertical garden is great, but doing it yourself needs additional skills for installing all those watering and fertilizing pipes etc.

Non thorn succulents are beautiful and safe, almost don’t need care to keep on going and look smashing!

Look at those photos – don’t you want something like this? I want!

Photos by FarOutFlora

Wild strawberries marry bamboo - edible landscape design idea

I am always looking for new edible landscape design ideas. Look at this one spotted in Sericourt Gardens - wild strawberries as ground covers and as understory of a bamboo patch.
No bamboo, but lots of other shrubs in my garden, so this Autumn I plan to divide my heavenly alpine strawberries and plant them in different spots in the garden.
This edible landscape design idea is great if your garden is not too big and you would like to get more won, fresh produce. Right?

Diane Hornibroski Wanted

Have you ever felt that there is no place in the garden to plant something new?

I did for last couple of months - this made me feel.... mmm... limited... - sounds familiar?

Do you know that's not truth? There is alway space for something cute to plant. On th little patch many plants will still fit :) This is what I decided will be my motto after seeing that little, cute erica in the shop. Can you see the little flowers growing around the stem - they look like painted circles.

I found little patch for 3 new erica by getting rid of another piece of lawn. This time I chose a place close to the pond, so I can see little flowers entire november directly from the livingroom window.

This is most sunny and hottest spot entire year round, which is not best for watergarden, but at the time of choosing the location my awareness of that fact was non existent. It will get better with the time - after trees and shrubberies will mature.

If you have closer look at the edge of the border, you see the logs. Earlier this year cherry tree needed some pruning - and this is the way to use again pruned branches - they will 1/ prevent gras from growing into the border, 2/ make lawnmowing easier 3/ little life creatures will get good place to live - that makes garden more biodiversified, which means more similar to natural and easier to maintain.

Thare one thing that bothers me - I bought the plants as Diane Hornibroski. To my highest surprise, googling is not showing any results. Usually if there is a plant - wherever in the world, however rare it is - you can find a trace of it by googling. This time NOPE! no such plant on this planet. Any idea why? I really would like to solve this puzzle...

By arranging little new patch, I removed some irises to a better place as well - while doing it don't forget to plant it on the surface of the soil - rhizome should be laying on it facing south for better sun exposure, which it needs. Just its thin roots should be buried in the soil. It will give you much more healthy plants and abundance of flowers June next year.

afternoon sun

Sempervivum in the pot - that's result of my search for low maintenance plants to grow in the pot...

Hedera helix in today's afternoon sun...