Planting the same plant in more than one place may seem like a strange thing to do in a small garden but if you do it sparingly, it has a big impact. In year two, I chose a bolder cornflower blue so that the furniture wouldn’t be lost among the larger, more developed plants. In the first year, I chose a cool green shade of paint to complement the pale purples and soft, variegated greens of the planting. This gave an underlying structure to the garden as the plants gradually grew up to blend with the color scheme of the furniture. However, I decided to add strong color to the design by painting the wooden surfaces in my garden with colored wood stain before it was planted.
When designing a small garden from scratch, there is inevitably a waiting period when you have to be patient and allow the design to develop as the plants grow. There are always solutions to get around the issue of an overcrowded garden, but I’ve learned that the easiest solution is to not overplant in the first place. I also found that the evergreen grass Carex ‘Everest’ was by far the most vigorous plant in the garden and has had to be lifted and split in spring to reduce the size of the plant. Perennial plants that have ‘multiplied’ can be divided in spring to stop them crowding out other plants. If you need to move perennial plants such as erysimum, asters, or rudbeckias, then wait until they have developed new shoots and move them in spring when the soil has started to warm up. This can be easily solved by moving roses or shrubs at the end of winter to give other plants around them more room.
I didn’t actually need to do this though-planting young plants in early spring, it is easy to underestimate how much they will grow in a single growing season!Īlthough this gave me the full look I desired in year one, it meant that by year two, a lot of plants had been ‘crowded out’ by others. When I initially planted the garden, I was keen to have a ‘full’ look in the first year so planted things quite close together. Never underestimate how much a plant will grow
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