A strip of soil between the pavement and the house, 6 by 4 metres, facing south, so in the sun. A paved path runs up the middle to the door. It is the first thing every visitor sees, and nobody wants to spend their Saturday mornings on it. It should look tidy all year and need almost no work.
Idea 3 of 36 × 4 m
6 m4 mN2 m
Plot boundary
Planting bed
Path
Plant at mature spread
Paving, existing
Idea shown in full
Clean lines and calm
A clipped hedge and repeated planting: a garden that looks tidy all year.
A sketch of the idea. Check the measurements on site before building.
The answers in this example
6 × 4 m
The house just past the plot
Paving
Full sun
Soil moisture: medium
Little upkeep
Style: tidy and formal
How much work: little
The plot is an example, made up to show the result. The plan, the plants and every figure on this page are what the Verdlo studio works out from these answers, the same as it will for you.
The plants, and why these
Every one of these:
Copes with winters here
Likes the sun this spot gets
Matches the soil moisture
English yewTaxus baccata× 5Flowers from March to April · Native to Europe · EvergreenCaution: children, dogs and cats.
Blue Arrow juniperJuniperus scopulorum 'Blue Arrow'× 3Flowers in April · Evergreen · Goes upwardsMildly harmful if eaten (children, dogs and cats).
Japanese spiraeaSpiraea japonica 'Little Princess'× 2Flowers from June to August · Stays small
Poisonous if eaten: English yew (children, dogs and cats).
Underground pipes and cables cannot be seen from above: before digging, find out where they run from your local utility locating service or the utility companies.
Watering plan
In a dry summer week this garden needs about 72 l of water, with the beds watered every 7 days.
What it may cost
from 868 to 2,552 PLN
Estimated cost of plants and materials in Poland, without labour, delivery, paving, walls or edging.
The other two ideas from the same answers
In the studio each of the three ideas comes with its full list of plants, watering and cost.
Easy-care green
A garden that asks little: tough shrubs and grasses in simple borders around open space.
Plants
9
Beds
4
Materials
from 849 to 2,460 PLN
Flowers and bees
Deeper borders full of flowers the bees love, set among shrubs and grasses.
Plants
7
Beds
4
Materials
from 745 to 2,120 PLN
What this plan does not know
Your soil. The example assumes the soil from its answers, but it cannot know how acid or heavy yours is: a simple test kit from a garden centre tells you before you buy plants.
Pipes, cables and a septic tank under the ground. No plan can see them: mark them in the studio as ground to keep clear, and check where they run on your house's site plan before you dig.
Where your plot really ends. The sizes here are made up; yours come from the land register (type the parcel number into the studio), and only a surveyor marks them on the ground.
Plan a garden like this on your plot
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