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  • Boss wants a new garden for work - ideas please

    I know you'll all help me.

    I've got a small patch of ground at the front of my workplace which my boss wants planted up. Its probably 5m x 2m and very exposed, it gets the sun most of the day and the soil looks pretty sandy. The chap who will ultimately look after it is not a gardener by his own admission.

    Our company colours are blue and yellow/ orange and i'd like some ideas for flowering hardy shrubs and perrenials that won't mind being pruned. I'd also like it to be a good place for bees. So far I'm thinking...

    Rose of Sharon
    Hemerocallis
    Hebe
    Ceanothus
    Daffs and crocus for spring
    Lavendars to edge the bed

    What do you think, and what would you put in?

  • #2
    Sounds brill. You can't go (far) wrong with hardy perennials.

    What about a herb garden? They're tough, low maintenance, pretty, smell nice and are great for bees/butterflies/hoverflies etc.

    A lot come with blue or yellow/orange flowers.

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    • #3
      Oh, that's an interesting idea. I was also thinking about a Rowan tree - its native, its got berries for the birds.

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      • #4
        Sage is good. Very hardy, very fragrant, bees love it and it flowers blue (well the unknown variety in my herb patch does).
        Last edited by pdblake; 03-07-2009, 07:55 AM.
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        • #5
          Besides all that - what a cool boss!
          A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

          BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

          Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


          What would Vedder do?

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          • #6
            Thanks for the ideas, keep 'em coming, and yes, he's a very cool boss - though he doesn't know he's doing it for the bees at the moment, that's my secret weapon!

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            • #7
              Excellent news for me and the bees! I showed my MD the design I had drawn up and he said 'Yes! I love it! Place the order!!' I'm going to take photos of it coz i'm chuffed to bits.

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              • #8
                Plants arrive tomorrow morning!! I'm getting very excited now, its like Christmas!!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Pumpkin Becki View Post
                  Plants arrive tomorrow morning!! I'm getting very excited now, its like Christmas!!
                  Coo, beats work Becki, how lovely to be able to enjoy your interests while at work. Look forward to the pics.
                  BumbleB

                  I have raked the soil and planted the seeds
                  Now I've joined the army that fights the weeds.

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                  • #10
                    Any jobs going at your place Becki??

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by srodders View Post
                      Any jobs going at your place Becki??
                      That would be quite some commute!!

                      Plants look fab, I've got a bit of tittivating to do, and then it will be photos agogo!!

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