Landscape in a Box
For those strapped for cash, space and time, a boxed garden – already designed by a professional – is a great way to get a terrific-looking landscape.
June 12, 2009
By Randy Schultz for High Country Gardens
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Summer Dreams Garden, a preplanned garden offered by High Country Gardens, fills a small space with great color.
courtesy High Country Gardens
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Hiring a professional landscape architect is one way to get a great-looking landscape, but it’s usually cost-prohibitive. Especially during an economic slump.
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So, how about buying a landscape designer in a box? That’s basically what you get when you buy a preplanned garden. A professional designer has already selected plants that look great together and thrive in the same growing conditions. All you do is put the plants in the ground according to the enclosed diagram. Viola! Instant garden!
Here are three great preplanned gardens that will make your yard look great:
Summer Dreams Garden
Every yard has a small, neglected space that could use a shot of summer color. That’s the idea behind the Summer Dreams Pre-planned Garden, a summer-blooming perennial garden that fills a small 5-foot-square space with harmonious color. All of the plants in this garden are easy-care, low-maintenance varieties that thrive in a wide range of soils.
Included in the garden are one each of Blue Fortune Hyssop (Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’), Fireworks Goldenrod (Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’), Goldstrum Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'), Purple Cone Flower (Echinacea purpurea), Rozzane Perennial Geranium (Geranium 'Rozzane'), and two Meadow Blazing Star plants (Liatris ligulistylus). The perennials in the Summer Dreams garden are excellent nectar and pollen sources for attracting and feeding beneficial pollinators like bees and butterflies.
This pre-planned garden comes with a planting diagram and care sheet (for keeping the garden in top shape). The Summer Dreams Small Spaces Pre-planned Garden sells for $58.92 exclusively from High Country Gardens.
From Russia with Love
For years now, David Salman, chief horticulturist of High Country Gardens, has been threatening to start a Russian Sage lonely hearts club because of all the Russian Sage that gets planted all by itself – without a companion plant in sight. The unique, smoky-blue color of Perovskia looks so much richer and more interesting when complemented with other flower colors. Hence, the inspiration for the ‘From Russia with Love’ garden. The perennials in this pre-planned garden are well matched for ease of care and bloom time as well as soil, water and cultural preferences.