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.

Pincushion flower: A butterfly magnet

Pincushion flower gets its common name from the center of the flower resembling pins stuck in a pincushion. This plant was awarded Perenniel plant of the year 2000.

It is a prolific bloomer having lacy lavender blue blooms from spring till frost. It is excellent front of the border plant. The delicate blue flowers add softness to the garden when combined with yellow/red flowers. It attracts butterflies.

After planting our plants we noticed small butterflies in our garden. It was so difficult going around them to get some pictures. But one fine day I found a beautiful large butterfly fluttering by our flowers. I managed to click some shots. I am waiting for that day, when I can get shots of many more butterflies in our garden.

Pleasant entrance garden

The entrance is a spotlight of any house. It is very important to have a pleasant inviting entrance. According to Feng Shui a neat and beautiful entrance encourages postive energy flow.

Our house entrance had two evergreen trees standing like pillars in front of the door. It seemed to block the door view and darkened the space. We wanted to open up this space and add a beautiful garden having attraction for all seasons.

The most challenging work was to remove those evergreen trees. Once that was done, the whole area was prepared for the planting. The plan for this area was to place a tree form lilac as a focal point, surrounded by evergreen yews and bordered by perennial flowers. Finishing touches were added to enhance the area and the entire project got completed in September 2006.