Feature Landscaping Project May

Add Airiness and Charm for Privacy off Three Chopt Rd.
Create a Two-Sided 3 -Paneled Garden Trellis

This gorgeous blue stone terrace with a seating area and grill was built about 20 feet away from this client’s black top driveway. You don’t need to use tall hedges of evergreens to gain privacy for a garden room. Create a dazzling distraction that makes you want to look at it, not the black top.

Here is a lovely two-sided 3- paneled open trellis with 3 “windows” that I designed for this highly functional and highly trafficked area of the garden. It is the only sunny area of the yard and gives us the opportunity for a colorful cutting garden.

One side of the trellis is in part sun where we planted columbine, foxglove and coneflower, while the hot side toward the blacktop gets salvias, asters and yarrows.

The way I “build” a perennial garden is to buy plants from spring through mid autumn. It’s easy to stop by the garden centers periodically to see what plants fit into empty spaces noting the perennial growth habit, leaf and flower color and height at maturity.

I encourage this client to buy flowers that catches her eye. Annuals like hollyhock, zinnias, cosmos, coleus and dahlias are also fun. Between the 2 of us (and her husband, of course) this will look like a Monet painting in no time!

Christie lives in Manakin Sabot , Virginia where she manages a 3 acre garden. Her blogs are written from her 35 years as a personal and professional gardener.