Grow Green Guide Garden Design

Fountain of Colour
Linear bed #15
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‘Compacta’ compact
strawberry tree
‘Hameln’ fountain grass
Caradonna’
purple wood
sage
evergreen
candytuft
‘Claret’ masterwort
‘Patty’s Purple’ hebe
Note: This presentation does not reflect coordinated flowering time.
To properly maintain your garden and for best results please:
• Prepare the garden bed with a good quality growing medium and plant your perennials at a minimum soil
depths of 30 cm, your shrubs 45 cm and trees 60 cm.
• Apply 5 cm of good quality compost to your garden bed in the spring.
• Remove weeds and inspect for pests and disease weekly in the spring and every two weeks in the summer.
• Ensure plants receive a minimum of 5 cm of water weekly during the first two years of growth.
After two years, the well-established plants will require less water.
• Remove ‘spent’ blooms, if desired, and rake and compost leaves in the fall.
• Prune as needed to remove damaged branches (the plants suggested here should not require pruning to
reduce size) during the winter.
Fountain of Colour
Linear bed #15
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BOTANICAL NAME (COMMON NAME)
ALTERNATIVE SELECTION
Arbutus unedo ‘Compacta’
(‘Compacta’ compact strawberry tree)
Vaccinium ovatum ‘Thunderbird’
(‘Thunderbird’ evergreen huckleberry)
PLANT SPACING
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TREE
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SHRUB
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Hebe ‘Patty’s Purple’ (‘Patty’s Purple’ hebe) Hebe ‘Blue Mist’ (Blue Mist hebe)
70 cm
2
PERENNIALS
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Astrantia major ‘Claret’
(‘Claret’ masterwort)
Astrantia major (great masterwort)
35 cm
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Iberis sempervirens (evergreen candytuft)
Arabis alpina subsp. caucasica
(mountain rockcress)
35 cm
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Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hameln’
(‘Hameln’ fountain grass)
Stipa tenuissima
(Mexican feather grass)
60 cm
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Salvia nemerosa ‘Caradonna’
(Caradonna’ purple wood sage)
Salvia nemerosa ‘May Night’
(‘May Night’ wood sage)
45 cm
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