Help me recreate this...

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Hi all,
I'd like to recreate this on my small picket fence in my front garden but I'm quite inexperienced. We've manage tidy up our back garden and plant various shrubs (mostly successfully).

Can anyone help?:

1. What is the lime green shrub or can you suggest something similar in size and colour?
2. I assume that purple plant is lavender - is there a particular species I should look for so that it doesn't grow too large?
3. Any advice on selecting the right rose species? I like this colour. I need them to grow in a neat row, without overcrowding the fence - so they need to be happy growing at less than 1m tall. My fence is 88cm tall.
4. Can I plant all of this now, in this lovely warm weather, provided I make sure they get enough water?

Thanks in advance for any help, guidance, tips, you can offer :)

Hey. I have saved the exact same pic on pintrest for my next house. Its beautiful isnt it? The lime green shrub is alchemilla mollis. Its planted with hidcote lavender and nepeta walkers low catmint. For the rose im planing on going for princess alexandra of kent shrub rose from David Austin roses. Be careful when planting alchemilla mollis as it self seeds very freely. Make sure you dead head if you want to stop this. All plants are perenials and very easy to grow. The rose mentioned is suitable for sun or shade. All can be planted now apart from roses. You will need to buy potted roses at this time of year and they are best left in their pots until July for planting in uk so as not to damage new roots. Follow planting instructions and water in well. Good luck. Hope it works. Tip you could also plant some purple salvia in with it as salvia will keep bugs off your roses.

Lovely 🥰

The lime green is alchemilla mollis www.gardenersworld.com/plants/alchemilla-mollis/ a perennial, easy to grow but dies back every winter and then re sprouts in spring.

The purple looks like a mixture of nepeta, closest to the camera www.gardenersworld.com/plants/nepeta-racemosa-walkers-low/ There are a few verities but walkers low is a good one that won't get too big. Then the deeper purple is either English lavender (maybe species Hidcote?) www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-lavender/ or possibly a small purple salvia like this one www.gardenersworld.com/plants/salvia-nemorosa-caradonna/

That fence looks lovely, as a summer feature, but what will it look like in autumn, winter and spring? Just a thought.

I agree that it would look less lovely in winter when all the perennials die back. Glorious in summer though.

Apologies for repeating everything @Eggnoggoanngoanngoann said - I didn't see her reply before adding mine.

One last thing David Austin Rosa queen of Sweden would be a good option for the rose. I've got one, it's only for n it's first year so can't comment on eventual size, but it's meant to be good for hedging so must take happily to hard pruning. It's a beautiful rose www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/queen-of-sweden

The lavender you probably want is lavender angustifolia (sp), which is a traditional type lavender. The green plant is alchemilla mollis. Those look like David Austin roses and for a smaller pink, reliable and floriferous rose you couldn’t do better than Olivia Rose Austin.

I think the green plant is alchemilla Mollis but personally, I’d use ‘lime marmalade’ heuchera instead, partly because I hate alchemilla and partly because heuchera ‘lime marmalade’ is the same colour, FAR better behaved, reliably evergreen, not too big and overall just a much nicer plant.

The purple looks like a mix of nepeta and English Lavender and the rose, no idea of the variety, but any fairly large, pink shrub rose would work for that design.

On closer examination, actually, I think the purple is a mix of English Lavender and Salvia, not Nepeta, but depending on where you are, I’d probably go for Nepeta over Salvia as salvias sometimes aren’t very hardy in a harsh winter.
Definitely use English Lavender too, not French/Spanish (Stoechas) as that isn’t as hardy.

The achemilia mollis, (ladies mantle) is the bane of my life. Spreads everywhere & hard to get out of beds. Totally beautiful when in flower though, now confined to a pot here. Agree with heuchera for longer interest. Recreating this would be difficult & short lived-to get so much blossom From everything at once.

I'd probably add some evergreen stuff for continued interest if You'll often pass the fence

Recreating this would be difficult & short lived-to get so much blossom From everything at once
I disagree, if you select the right rose variety and deadhead regularly you should get flowers May/June to September (I often have roses as late as November!)

Lavender and Nepeta too have long flowering periods.

I suppose late autumn/winter and spring could be a little bare but OP could plant some bulbs too to cover spring; snow glory and/or iris reticularis flower very early in February i believe followed by bluebells or muscari in May perhaps?

Got the name wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️
Glory of the snow, not snow glory

I planted a hedge of Queen of Sweden rose plants earlier this year. They're doing well and I spotted the first buds today. To recreate the photo, a stronger pink would work better with the alchemilla mollis I think.

Very pretty for late May - Julyish. I’d put money on that being Salvia Caradonna (the spikier darker blue) + Nepeta/catmint (agree probably walkers low). I love alchemilla mollis even though it seeds everywhere and needs cutting back once the lovely lime green fades in midsummer. You could underplant with something for spring - and it would look OK until late summer if you had a repeat flowering rose. Very bare in winter but I do love to see my garden explode from tidy but quite empty borders in early spring to a riot of colour in summer.

Thanks for much to you all for your advice and recommendations.

I'm aware this is a fair challenge for someone like me with very little experience but I think I'm just going to go for it. Mine is not a very long fence so hopefully the maintenance will be manageable because of that.

First job though is to re-paint the fence. I'll try to get that done next week and then go on the hunt for the plants once that's ready.

If I manage to do a decent job, I'll try to remember to post a photo or two here, so you can all see what you have helped to create!

You might want to check out rosa bonica. Repeat flowering, but does have hips if you don't deadhead it.