Calling shovetheholly and other gardeners! Help!

[SkodaLabia]

I have a very weirdly shaped garden. I've posted about it before but since then it's got weirder thanks to the discovery of a second patio under a deck that we recently removed.
I'm at a loss as to how to work with the shape. It's short and wide and faces due West.

I really want more privacy, and anything that could help to minimise the noise from a busy road, but at the moment dealing with the shape has me defeated!

Right, so it would be the colour rather than the type of plant that would be the problem with the rose? Poor DD, I'm definitely drawing the line at daffodils.

Think I'm heading Asian woodland instead of jungle...

Rowan works well for me if the theme is Asian woodland- they're from that part of the world. I am not sure about the rose from a strictly thematic viewpoint BUT I think if a plant makes someone really happy, and this clearly DOES make your DD happy, an exception has to be made.

Flowers that you see a lot in Asian gardens - hydrangeas, irises (the Japaness are mad about both), azaleas, camellias, and of course cherry blossom!

I think mumstead wood is a good rose and colour. Keep it to a small bush by pruning and I think it would work. Alternatively there are lots of miniature daffodils in pots in shops at present. She could put them in the garden now and will most likely forget about them next year. If she is after something pretty instead of a rose, Aqueliga or Japanese anemome might fit the bill for both you and her.

She has picked a beautiful blue iris and this hibiscus. I think roses and daffodils are the only plants that she knows, bless her, being 6 and all.

I love hibiscus - I have two a white and a bluey/purpley one
Good thinking Astrantia :)

I shall of course have to get an Astrantia Major in there somewhere...

Here's a quick one, I'm going to grow a load of pyracantha up the front of the house. It's red brick, would you say yellow, orange or red berry is the way to go? The woodwork is currently just stained that teak type colour but will ultimately be F&B Railings or Black Blue, with a front door in a bluey shade, either Drawing Room Blue like this pic, Stone Blue or maybe Inchyra Blue.

I think my instinct is towards a yellow plant, but I'm not sure. I'm going for lots of the same, for maximum impact.

I think any of them would look nice, but orange or yellow perhaps particularly so! I think with the greenier blues (inchyra) maybe yellow, and with the drawing room blue maybe orange - to avoid it looking too 'primary colours'? What do others think?

Good point. I'll prioritise what goes best with the brickwork then, in case it ends up looking like we're living in Balamory. I can be flexible about the door colour, although as we're seasidey a blue could be nice.

I agree with one colour for dramatic effect. We had lots in our front garden which is cold and shady. They seem to do well wherever you put them. We had loads them in the rear garden too and It was great to,watch the blackbirds eating the berries. In later years I started to shape them a bit to try and keep some control. I just cut of all the front facing branches and then the side ones really took off.

I'd do yellow - its a classic colour combination, so won't date.
For some reason the birds never ate the berries on mine , but the little birds loved to hide in it

In our garden the male used to strip the red one and the female the yellow. It might have been that the red one was in an exposed part of the garden but the yellow one in a secluded corner. She maybe felt safer there.

Hah - my old one was orange - it was an enormous thing on the whole side of my west facing wall. When we had to take it out we found birds nests , and more of the kids tennis balls than I could count ( they called it the ball eater ) My new(er) one is yellow, but is surprisingly thin on berries in comaparison. But it is a lovely round shape

Half price hellebores in Homebase! Score! I was very disciplined and only bought from my scheme: a climbing hydrangea, some ferns and some hellebores.

Me again! Bargain spiraea vanhouttei in Lidl, very nice for a Japanesey type woodland garden I'd say. Everything I have so far is white or blue so I need to have a bit of a think. I don't think I want a red white and blue garden, so may go for one of the purple clematis for up the trellis. And otherwise keep it to lots of lovely green foliage.