The areas of your landscape can be divided into several sections and areas,
which are also known as garden rooms. Garden rooms are spaces where you plant,
grow, and display different ideas in gardening in various creative methods. One
garden room could be a rose garden, while another could include the use of a
water garden, while still another garden room in your landscape could include
the use of just purple flowers. Garden rooms are your creation, and only limited
to your imagination. To create the rooms in your landscape where you can be both
different and creative you need to actually create some type of walls in your
gardens. The walls in your gardens are going to be grown from other larger types
of plants. Living fences are one 'way' that you can create garden rooms.
Dependable shrubs and hedges that you can use for fences or as wall between
the garden rooms include various types such as:
Forsythia is a spring flowering shrubs that would make the country garden
room lovely. Long after the spring months, the flowers will die off but the
leaves on this shrub will fill in as a wall nicely.
Broadleaf evergreens are another type of shrub that is very popular in
creating garden rooms. One in particular is the boxwood. The boxwood can be
shaped rounded or with a boxy shape. It will take years to grow to be very tall,
but it is a very thick shrub, that will create wonderful walls for the garden
rooms. The leaves are very small, appearing in the late spring months and
lasting until the very coldest of the winter months.
There are many 'ways' that you can create walls in the garden to grow private
rooms. Lilacs are a 'flowering boundary type' plant that will spread but very
slowly. The flowers on the taller bushes create a nice backdrop for many garden
rooms. The Border Privet is a smaller shrub that is fast growing. This plant
would grow to fill in the walls of any room in the garden.
Juniper evergreens, holly, burning bushes, and even rose bushes grow and tame
to produce what will look like walls. When you are creating several different
areas in your landscape, you have hundreds of choices of plants, shrubs, or even
bushes that will fill in nicely.
One important thing to remember when you start creating your walls for any
type of garden room is that the final display inside of the room is going to be
accented by the type of plants that you use to create the actual room.
