Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Garden Design by Alan Titchmarsh

Author:Alan Titchmarsh [Titchmarsh, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Space-saving equipment

Manufacturers of all kinds of garden paraphernalia now cater better than ever for gardeners with limited space. If you shop around you will find ingenious space-saving versions of all those things you thought you didn’t have room for, such as:

Slimline water butt

Lean-to mini-greenhouse

Folding wheelbarrow

Seat with tool storage box underneath

Folding willow obelisk

Folding tables and chairs

All-year-round greenery for small spaces

Fatsia japonica This is the ultimate architectural evergreen, with great hand-shaped leaves that cast interesting shadows. Cut it back each spring if you want to keep it bushy, and don’t let it get too dry.

Ilex aquifolium The many variegated cultivars of holly work equally well as shrubs or small trees. They are shade-tolerant, and can be kept to size by pruning once or twice a year.

Laurus nobilis Bay is a favourite for courtyards, entrances and other small spaces. It will look smart all year round if you keep it pruned to shape in summer. Prune it with secateurs, not shears, to avoid unsightly brown edges on leaves cut in half.

Osmanthus × burkwoodii This dark broadleaved evergreen has dense foliage, and fragrant white blossom in early spring.

Pittosporum tenuifolium With their attractive pale-green leaves and dark stems, pittosporums never become oppressive. There are cultivars with pretty purple or variegated foliage.

Taxus baccata Yew is one of the plants that are suitable for the fashionable Japanese technique of ‘cloud pruning’, which results in a tree with tightly clipped blobs of foliage (the clouds) linked by short stretches of bare trunk from which all shoots are removed. The effect is much lighter than that of solid, clipped yew.

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