Thursday, September 27, 2007

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.


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