Showing posts with label boxwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boxwood. Show all posts

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.


Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Our first garden bed

With arrival of spring in 2006, we decided to start working on our first garden bed in the bird feeder and bird bath area. The main goal was to provide some hiding spaces for the birds when they visit this area.

The plan for this area was to have a spring flowering shrub, Lilac to be surrounded with some evergreen boxwoods and some daylilies in the border. We managed to complete the work in one weekend. Our lilac had its first bloom in couple of days. The fragrance of the blooms lingered in the patio for days. The daylilies started having couple of blooms everyday

Birds seemed happy with the new hiding spaces around the bushes. And we were very much delgihted with the beauty of our new garden.

Here is a snapshot of the garden.