Plants help

[digiwidgy]

We had a driver crash into our garden a few months ago. Work has finally started to repair our garden and our new fencing is going up in July. We are getting feather edge fencing and this will be painted later in July or into August. We had a row of sleepers between the bottom of the old fence and the start of the grass, just to make things easier for mowing the lawn.

We are thinking of increasing the width of the sleepers so we can put some planters along the fence line. Likely long rectangular, trough type planters.Not set in stone though.

What plants are good, all year round plants that last? It is ever green we need to look at? I don’t want hedging. I’d just like something that lasts, doesn’t need tonnes of maintenance and it quite happy just being left to its own devices.

How about variegated greater periwinkle? Has pretty foliage, blue flowers, easy to grow. https://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselectorimages/detail/elbo12850.jpg

It's perennials that you want then. These are plants that don't die in the winter.

Some perennials die back in the winter (leaves and flowers die, but the roots don't) and they grow again in the spring. These need a bit of tyding up in the late autumn/winter to remove all the dead.

Some perennials loose their leaves in the winter

Some perennials are evergreen

How much sun/shade does the area get? Do you want flowers?

Pittosporum Tom Thumb is a neat little evergreen shrub that stays small and requires no maintenance at all.

Lavender would be another good one. Evergreen and lovely flowers all summer. You just need to chop the flowers off when they've finished so one maintenence job all year.

If you alternated the two along the border it would look amazing.

Thank you. This looks pretty.

The Garden is North facing. I will look at perennials.

Cotoneaster horizontalis, rosemary, maybe a small conifer or two such as mugo pine or picea abies glauca conica (long name for a simple plant!).