Small Plants For Narrow Garden Beds

If you re gardening in a confined area or in containers it s usually best to look for plants that are relatively compact as well as those that have multi season interest.

Small plants for narrow garden beds.

This narrow upright evergreen is a smooth leaved holly that reaches about 6 feet in height but is only 2 to 3 feet wide. Low growing edging plants help create the layered look that gives small urban outdoor spaces a luxuriant lush feel. They can be used as a hedge feature plant or as a potted specimen. Like other hollies the male and female plants are separate.

They re smaller than other varieties they have attractive foliage and or they have a particularly long bloom period or bloom in two seasons. When making a raised bed instead of going in ground you can place it where the sun or shade is the best for the plants you want to cultivate. The following perennials are ideal for small space gardens. This will contribute solid structure amongst tall slender self supporting perennials and annuals and climbers.

You can also prevent tunneling pests from decimating your plants. Lavender avonview and rosemary officinalis are both tough shrubs that can thrive with very little care and attention. Several edible plants such as artichoke above left rhubarb and lemongrass are so beautiful they are often planted for their looks alone. Use the vertical space and suppress any inclination to keep your plants in check at a low level.

Rain lilies zephyranthes candida are wonderful edging plants with their grassy 30 centimetre high foliage and crocus like white flowers produced during summer and autumn particularly after rainfall. Ground level plants include stripy leafed tradescantia zebrina walking iris neomarica gracilis and philodendron congo while mid level species include rhapis palm ornamental cardamom and red flowering heliconia stricta. Other popular low maintenance cottage style plants include the brachysome multifidi and the argyranthemum frutescens. They re good plant partners for salviasand echinaceas.

Ilex crenata sky pencil. Mixing attractive edibles with ornamental plants as shown here is an excellent way to save on space in small gardens. Plants can be healthier and more productive in a raised bed because you can control the quality of the soil and water drainage. Cranesbill geranium or hardy geranium is a mounding species that thrives in full sun in average well drained soil.

All bulbs don t take up lots of room so are great for planting in narrow borders. Belladonna lilies amaryllisbelladonna are one of the many bulbs you could grow in a narrow border. Reaching heights of up to 3 feet it s a good middle position filler in beds and borders with shrubs behind and shorter flora in front.