Garden design

[watervole]

I love my neighbours!

Not only are they paying me to mow, weed and trim their garden, but they've just given me a plant-buying budget to play with. There's a general request for blues/lilacs/soft colours and a natural look to it. Beyond that, they trust me to pick something that will work.

This is so exciting! My mind is playing with ideas. I'd already thought that some silvery foliage might work well and that would fit in very well with blues as there's several plants with a silvery tint to the leaves that have blue flowers.

I'm toying with a globe thistle http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/7607.shtml as a centrepiece. Catmint, lavender, bluebells, iris, what else would people suggest?

Anyone fancy making a fork and trowel icon for me?

Comments

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Gank this. Already LJ-presized.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Forget-me-not?

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Ummm... being less than expert, I don't know many, but what about love-in-a-mist? We have it setting seed every year and I think it'd go with a soft look (of course , it also sets seed in the lawn every year too, so one has to watch it). Grape hyacinths are also lovely, and would suit a small garden maybe?

We have irises, blue, purple and white (plus one powder blue - we have no idea where it came from, it just appeared and grew like Topsy, but is very pretty).

[kerravonsen]

Lamb's ears are pretty, silvery and furry... http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/885.shtml

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Campanula, they come in white as well. Grape hyacinth, cornflowers.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I've been to check the tag on the silvery-leaved bedding plant I put in recently which has vroomed (two-thirds of the bedding plants I put in die; of the rest, half do not much and half go vroom), and it's Helichrysum microphylla silver.