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Design Elements
with Landscape designer, Louise McDaid
I have a friend who for years has
been trying to get the pink blue and white hyacinths to flower at the same
time.
Each year she buys these bulbs and
has attempted to plant them in pots at different times. But no, with repetitive
stubbornness, these Hyacinths just refuse to comply, as if obeying some other
higher order.
So what do you need to do to get
other flowers to open at when you want them too? Here’s a bit of a hint….
I never can get my blue flowers to
open up at the same time as the yellow flowers in the front garden. So to beat
this conundrum, I’ve planted bushes with yellow foliage like Abelia, Frances
Mason, and variegated Buxus to name a couple.
If you want a white garden, there’s
plenty of plants with white in the leaves, that you could add. Then you need to
pick something from each season that has a white flower whether annual or
perennial, it doesn’t matter.
It could also be a tree like the
Handkerchief tree, which is much admired in English gardens, but grows equally
well in Australia.
