New to gardening

Having bought a new house last year it's time to attack the garden. I am looking for advice as to what perennials to put in borders around the garden that are hardy, colourfull and not attractive for dogs to mess with!! Any advice would be great!!

Thanks

Gaz

 

Welcome Gaz I'm sure you'll get a lot of advice here

 

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On the subject of perennials, I am in the process of filling my garden with perennials and shrubs and trying to balance it so there is year round interest, I have not seen my garden for 3 weeks as I am visiting friends, but phoned my neighbour today, who is watering for me , and she tells me the garden is looking beautiful, and we have loads of tomatoes.

 

Hello and welcome Gaz.

Photos are always good, but one point I did pick up on was the perennials bit. Any particular reason why you want to limit your choices to just perennials? Some annuals will provide lots of low maintenance colour, and if its just the hassle of starting again every year that puts you off, some annuals self seed so freely that they may as well be perennials.

 

Cheers clueless. It was a maintenance/replanting reason. However annuals sound ok. Will get some pics together and post to gain better feedback. Cheers guys

 

Welcome Gaz,

Looking forward to seeing pix.

Obviously, for year round interest, evergreens would be on the list. I read somewhere (can't remember where) that a garden shouldn't contain more than one third evergreens if you wish to have a "balance" of interest? For me, that would include Hebes because they are evergreen, low maintenance and produce pretty flowers too. But, no real scent.

Bulbs are another interesting feature of a garden. When I moved into this house, it already had a large daylily patch. This greens up from Spring and (my variety) gets to over 4' tall and is now producing a plethora of flowers. A tip I've learned this year is: when the patch dies down in the Autumn, plant up with daffodils to extend the season of interest. Of course, this will leave a couple of months where it is bare ground, but that is fine, because behind it I have ... a hebe

This year is my trip into self seeding annuals, so can't really comment on those ... until next year! But, I visited a garden earlier this year where they use self-seeding annuals in their garden and, it was breath-taking!

 

The evergreens list should have my favourite trio on it. Rosemary, Sage and Thyme