Planting Schemes

There are quite a few different planting scheme styles including cottage garden, informal and mixed border. A garden with a good planting scheme - the right plants next to each other in terms of colour and shape and the correct spacing between each plant - will look beautiful and feel 'right'. A planting scheme should give year round colour.

Types of Planting Schemes:

Cottage garden

More on the lower maintenace side. Annuals and perennials live happily in a bed of various colours, shapes and sizes. Some of the annuals will self seed each year so it's a case of keeping the ones you want and weeding out the others. Some gardeners plant vegetables in the bed. This combination can work really well when plants or shrubs are prone to disease e.g planting chives near roses is a natural black spot remedy.

Mixed Border

Plants (annuals and perennials) and bulbs are carefully planted amongst shrubs. When done correctly can give wonderful colour/height co-ordination.

Herbaceous Border

Usually planted for larger gardens sometimes with a backdrop of a large stone wall. This type of planting scheme is high maintenance with a lot of weeding, dividing and dead-heading involved. A large bed space is needed so that the taller herbaceous plants will give an impact, especially if surrounded by smaller plants runs down to a large lawn. All the plants can then be viewed from any angle.

Formal and Informal

Formal planting schemes have defined structure and are planned in a 'definite' way. Perennials or annuals are planted in rows or rigid circular shapes and may form part of a larger garden plan where other planting schemes have been utilised.
Informal planting schemes have some structure but are much less definite in structure. The efect of planting in this way is much more subtle.

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