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This is what I would like my Ambitious Border (TM) to look like. (Without the trimmed hedges and the statuary.)
My colour scheme might be more limited (I would prefer keep the colours in blues, pinks and purples, though having browsed innumerable borders I am now considering adding more colours to the mix…
Anyway, the important thing is really the abundance of flowers and plants. And the dense planting! For my mono-cultivarious beds around the terrace I have so far stuck to single types of plants, but in the Ambitious Border (TM) I intend to use much more mixed plants. (As is the tradition for large borders, at least in the North-European gardening tradition.)
Kitchen garden… Raised beds… I want this! I know that raised beds will not rally allow me to grow root vegetables like carrots and potatoes, considering the wet clay soil of the garden, but it should give great growing conditions for plants like peas, beans, lettuce and so on.
I couldn’t find a WikiMedia Commons picture of the sort of container garden that I would love to have in the sun yard, but I’m sure that’s not hard to imagine; plenty of pots with flowers, backed by larger pots of greenery and shrubs.
(Both pictures in this entry are from WikiMedia Commons.)
>SorenYour plans are ambitious! I've always been drawn to mixing ornamentals with showy edibles, and 'hot' color combinations that I believe would have a glowing in the light I picture in Denmark. Cheers! Alice( following via Blotanical:^]
>You've got to have a dream if you're going to make a dream come true!
>Beautiful plan to have!I also want to have a beautiful garden with raised beds and a lot of flowers, although I know I am still very very far from it, you can always dream (and then go for it).I hope you get to have your beautiful ambitious border(TM-Flâneur Gardening) soon