Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Plants/Trees for narrow space 6Aug 27, 2013 9:31 am The funny thing about this is that we have exactly the same situation and on the same W/NW side! Only, we are leaving it plant-free because it's not the area that we'd need to look at (we only have 1 window on this side and we never use it, ie. never open the blinds anyway as it's a long room and it has 2 other windows which both look to the street). I agree no trees here at all! It would be too close to the house and would eventually grow too high. I think most of the plants or shrubs planted here would tend to grow faster in height because, if it's anything like our own situation with the fence and then the neighbour's house shading the area right along to the fence, the plants would be keen to grow taller (and slimmer) to reach that sunshine for a longer period of the day. Just my experience. My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Plants/Trees for narrow space 7Aug 27, 2013 9:35 am I also always look for dwarf varieties of my favourites. Amazing how many there are. Re: Plants/Trees for narrow space 8Sep 14, 2013 11:15 pm Thanks for your replys all. I have changed my thinking and have been thinking about putting some camellias down that side to give me some height. I may even espalier them if I can be bothered. Camellias don't have crazy roots do they ? Then adding some smallish ferns and bordering with some lambs ears. On the sunny side close to the house I was thinking some geraniums ( easy, hardy, like sun and look nice). dimensions on your original plan are inconsistent and with accurate dimensions (including site plan, upstairs and down) i could make a proper scale drawing with furniture… 3 7497 Thanks again for this information. If you do hear anything different, would be great to know 4 8212 So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27179 |