Grow Green Guide Garden Design

A Currant Affair
Linear bed #13
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Patty’s Purple hebe
gaura
Mexican
feather grass
drumstick allium
yarrow
White Icicle flowering currant
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.
A Currant Affair
Linear bed #13
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ID
BOTANICAL NAME (COMMON NAME)
ALTERNATIVE SELECTION
Hp
Hebe ‘Patty’s Purple’ (Patty’s Purple hebe)
Hebe ‘Blue Mist’ (Blue Mist hebe)
Rw
Ribes ‘White Icicle’
(White Icicle flowering currant)
Ribes sanguineum
(red flowering currant)
PLANT SPACING
QTY
SHRUBS
70 cm
3
150 cm
1
PERENNIALS
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Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Tanacetum parthenium (feverfew)
40 cm
11
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Allium sphaeracephalon
(drumstick allium)
Allium cristophii (star of Persia)
30 cm
11
gl
Gaura lindheimeri (gaura)
Astrantia major ‘Claret’
(‘Claret’ masterwort)
45 cm
2
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Stipa tenuissima (Mexican feather grass)
Carex testacea
(orange New Zealand sedge)
45 cm
3