Flowing bedlines

Landscaping our yard is such a beautiful experience. Our neighbour is a Landscape designer who is helping us with such a beautiful design for our yard. She is guiding us nicely through each and every step of our landscaping projects.

She introduced the concept of flowing bedlines and we were amazed with her design. If you happen to look at our yard from aeriel view, you can see all the bedlines flow with each other. And if you happen to walk by our yard, you can experience the garden with so many variations of plants and flowers, beautiful colors and so many different textures. This ensures that there is some kind of activity in the garden throughout the year.

The main focal point on the front side of the house is River birch tree. It has a beautiful exfoliating bark which looks pretty in the winter. The outline curve is defined with junipers and the inside has a wide area of purple coneflowers. On the back there is a row of daylilies and some pincushion flowers on the outer edge. On the side of the bedline is a deciduous shrub called Weigela, which has tons and tons of red trumpet shaped flowers which attracts hummingbirds. The curve flows back into our backyard crossing the fence with an outer edge of evergreen boxwoods. This area has a flowering crabapple as a focal point surrounded by blue iris flowers.

Garage side walk garden

Near our garage there is a sidewalk that goes to our backyard. This garden adds beauty as well as privacy to the sidewalk area. This was the first area to have a tree in the design. The main focal point is Three flowered maple (Acer triflorum). It is an ornamental tree with beautiful fall color. The peeling bark adds winter interest.

The kallay juniper defines the bedline and purple coneflower fills the space surrounding the tree. The seed heads of purple coneflowers are favorite food for the birds, especially goldfinch.

This area was planted in Fall 2006. Winter had too many snowy and windy days which might be little hard for the newly planted trees. In spring new leaves sprouted and filled the tree in couple of days. But fluctuating weather and spring snow freezes caused little damage to the new leaves. So the tree is not dense enough. Probably in few years this tree would be dense and beautiful.

Lamp post garden

Every garden has some kind of focal point. Here, lamp post becomes the point of attraction. The garden looks pretty in night when soft light falls on the plants.

We started this project in late summer of 2006. This garden bed had 3 different plants in the design. An outer edge of evergreens to define the bedline curve and inner rows of flowering perennials.

Kallay juniper forms a good evergreen groundcover. It has a cascading layer effect which softens the garden. White swan coneflower and Moonbeam coreopsis have repeated blooms throughout the summer.

Add beauty with Ornamental grass

Over the years, Ornamental grasses have gained popularity for their use in landscapes. Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' is one of the most versatile, attractive, and low maintenance ornamental grasses. It was awarded the title Perennial Plant of the Year 2001. The deep green, shiny foliage of this cool season grass appears in early spring and lasts until early winter. Loose, feathery flower inflorescences appear in June and are initially light pink in color. As the seed heads mature, they become very narrow with a golden tan color that lasts through the fall season.

We had a small space by the side of garage which was an ideal spot for this grass. While planting we combined it with a flowering perennial. But the grass outgrew itself so quickly that we had to move the perennial. The first season we could not see any blooms. But next spring the grass came out nicely growing tall to about 4 feet height having beautiful blooms.