Home Architecture Talk
I need a good landscape design!?
We have a split level home and I want to plant flowers in the areas below the upper windows (also in front of the lower windows). I'm new at this stuff and inexperienced in what to do. The left side is a half circle about 12x15, and the right side is a long rectangle about 3x12. I was thinking flowers on the left side and 3-4 flower bushes on the right side. Or should I do flowers on both? Does anyone know of a place where I can design it or can you help me? I'd like to do a 3-season garden but have no clue where to put what. How do I make it so something is always in bloom? (minus winter of course). Any help would be great, thanks!
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- I would go to the library and get a bunch of landscaping books that have ready made plans in them. You don't have to love each plan, but can use them as a base and tweak from there. I would add in curves where you can so you get away from rectangular areas, as they don't look as natural. In each area you'll want some structural, meaning ever greens or flowering shrubs that will give you something to look at most of the season ( or year if evergreen). Then add in perennials and a few spots for annuals, which give you the color but have to be replanted each year. Draw it out on graph paper with a pencil so you can erase. Also talk to a local nursery. Go in with some pictures and dimensions on a day that isn't busy and ask someone for ideas. Here's more-- good luck http://www.oldhouseweb.com/gardening/Gardening/
