Skip to content
Guy's Garden

Guy's Garden

Gardening Enthusiast and Horticulturalist

Category: tree planting

02/10/2020 evergreen plants / flowering plants / foliage / gardening / grasses / mixed border / new plants / plant design / tree planting

September 2020: Autumnal planting

We dug over and planted into the bed which sits next to the new drive. As the space will be used to park the car, we choose to plant a grass that will fill out and create a nice green edge to the space, but won’t mind being stepped on from time to time. We used Hakonechloa ‘macra‘. This type

Continue reading
22/09/2020 ferns / flowering plants / foliage / plant design / tree planting / trees

August 2020: New planting beds

As I mentioned in last months post, we now have 4 new planting beds at our disposal and this month we  planted into 2 of these new spaces. For both beds we included shrubs for height and structure, as well as mid height and ground covering plants. We selected plants for their contrasting/complimentary foliage colours and textures and also thought

Continue reading
21/04/2020 ferns / grasses / hostas / pear tree / silver birch / tree planting / trees

March 2020: Spring planting

In last month’s post I talked about how we prepared a large new planting bed. In March we planted 2 trees into this space and they’ve instantly provided height and impact. Since we’ve already planted 3 multi stem silver birch in the garden (Betula utilis var. jacquemontii), we thought it would be effective to plant a single stem cultivar called

Continue reading

Recent Posts

  • Spring 2022: Summer Solstice reflections
  • July – August 2021: High summer in the garden
  • June 2021: New flowering plants
  • May 2021: Exploding Hostas
  • April 2021: Spring blossom and half a greenhouse
  • March 2021: Three new planting beds
  • February 2021: Spring bulbs, fresh foliage and a new bin store
  • January 2021: Snow in the garden
  • October – December 2020: Bare root hedging and bulb planting
  • September 2020: Autumnal planting
  • August 2020: New planting beds
  • July 2020: Hard Landscaping
  • June 2020: Midsummer in the garden
  • May 2020: Nesting birds and spring flowers
  • April 2020: Spring flowers
  • March 2020: Spring planting
  • February 2020: Preparing a new planting bed
  • January 2020: Structural planting
  • December 2019: Planting a multi-stem cherry tree and reflections on 2019
  • November 2019: Planting bare root crab apple trees
Subscribe To Hear About New Posts
Loading
WordPress Theme: Maxwell by ThemeZee.