Need help with some landscaping ideas. Don't know where to start. Have a pretty bare yard. Want to put some trees around the perimiter of the yard. Maybe some shrubery inbetween the trees Put a couple of trees inbetween a couple of yards. Some shrubery around the house. I need an extreme home makeover in the yard. Please help! |
I can't design a garden for you, but I can give you a list of plants that do well in the Pacific Northwest: Acer Ginnala Acer Rubrun 'Red Sunset" Achellea 'Moonshine' Agapanthus Ajuga reptans"Catlin's Giant" Allium giganteum Anemone x Hybrids ' Honorine Jobert' Apple Aquilegia vulgaris 'Variegata' Artemisa 'Canescens" Aster divaricatus Aster ericoides Aster nova - belgii 'Rose Serenade' Aster x frikartii 'Monarch' Astible 'Ostrich Plume' Calamagrostis 'Karl Foester' CIstus x Corbariensis Clematis 'Etoile Violette' Coreopsis "moonbeam' Coreopsis Rosea Cornus Kousa Cornus Mas Corydalis Lutea Crocus Daphne Cneorum Delphinium Dianthus Plumarius Digitalis Grandiflora Echinops 'Taplow Blue' Euonymus Radicans Euphorbia Griffith 'Fireglow Euphorbia x Martinii Euphorbia x Martinii Red Martin Filipendula Rubra 'Venusta' Forsythia 'Lynwood Gold' Fragaria "pink Panda' Fritillaria imperialis Geranium 'Johnson's Blue' Geranium x Riversleaianum 'Mavis Simpson' Geranium xoxonianum 'Phoebe Noble' Geum 'Leonars's Varety' Hamamelis x Intermedia 'Arnold Promise' Helleborus Orientalis Hemerocallis "Stella Doro" Heuchera Sanguinea Vars. Heucherella 'Bridget bloom' Hibiscus Syriacus 'Diana' Hosta 'Piedmont Gold' Hosta sieboldiana 'Elegans' Hydrangea macrophylla Iris, Pacific Coast Lavandula Latifolia Lavandula Stoechas Lavatera 'Kew Rose' Lobelia tupa Lysimachia Ephemerum Muscari armeniacum Narcissus King Alfred Nereta 'Six Hills Giant' Organum 'Hopleys Purple' Origanum vulgare 'Hopleys' Peach 'Frost' Penstemon 'Blue of Zurich' Perovskia Hybrida Phlox Maculata 'Miss Lindgard' Phlox Maculata 'Rosalind' Plum 'Satsumus' Plum 'Shiro' Polygonum Bistorta 'Superba' Polygonum Campanulatum Potentilla Fruticosa 'Mt. Everest' Ribes Sangvinea 'Henry Henneman' Rosemary Blue Spire Rudbeckia Lacinata 'Herbstonne' Salix Alba 'Chermisina' Salix Babylonica Salix Purpurea 'Nana' Salvia 'Indigo Spires' Salvia 'Superba' Salvia Azurea 'Pitcheri' Salvia Officinalis 'Purpurascens' Salvia Officinals 'Tricolor' Senecio 'Sunshine' Stachys Lanata Stachys Lanta 'Silver Carpet' Verbena Bonariensis Veronica Incana Viburnum 'Spring Bouquet' Armed with this list of plants plus a copy of Sunset Western Garden Book, you should be able to design a beautiful new landscape. Best wishes with your project! |