A dreary bed in the front garden with boring shrub planting becomes a colorful eye-catcher. We have two design ideas for replanting, including the planting plans as PDF for downloading and printing.
A narrow bed next to the entrance to the property is planted with numerous bushes. Evergreen deciduous trees and conifers set the scene. The planting is easy to care for, but striking flowers are - with the exception of the hydrangea in the foreground - rather in short supply. A more balanced combination of perennials and flowering bushes would significantly enhance the bed in the front yard.
Over the years, the ornamental shrubs in the front garden bed have become very dense. Therefore, all plants except for the false cypress are removed. The roots should also be dug out as much as possible and the soil should then be improved with loose, humus-rich soil. Perennials, flowering shrubs and ornamental grasses provide color - the latter give the bed structure even in winter. While the Chinese reed ‘Silberfeder’ is planted in the background, tuffs of pennon cleaner grass and heron feather grass are distributed between the perennials.
From May yellow lady's mantle blooms, followed by purple steppe sage ‘Ostfriesland’, yellow-orange torch lily and yellow yarrow. From August the flowers of the purple sedum plant open, which is decorative for a long time even when it has faded. In the shrubs, the dwarf lilac starts in May with fragrant pink-lilac flower panicles, from July the blue-violet summer lilac attracts glances and butterflies. From August the blue flowers open on the gray-felted shoots of the beard flower. If you cover the ground with a thick layer of gravel after planting, weeds hardly stand a chance. Care is limited to the pruning of grasses, perennials, buddleia and beard flowers in spring.