Front Garden Revamp Advice







I currently have a Salix Flamingo in the right hand side corner, but also really fancy a Tibetan cherry tree for height and the beautiful bark. My question is where to put the trees: shall I move the Salix to the left corner as it’s under 2m and will not get any bigger and then put the cherry on the right or any other suggestions?
Thank you!
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If not your neighbours wont appreciate a tree overhanging their drive. Also if the car isn't yours is customery to blank out the number plate.
Have you thought about making a central bed and planting it there?
I was considering the cherry tree on the side rather than a central bed to avoid blocking out light from the lounge window as well as to make mowing simple?
You could have a cherry in the middle then, to conceal the view of the road. As others have suggested, you want to avoid blocking the light to your windows; a narrow tree like Prunus 'Amanogawa', the columnar cherry, is also possible though. Although it's a north-facing space, it's pretty open by the looks of things. A mixture of tough but shade-tolerant plants, like hellebores, ferns, euphorbias, Solomon's Seal, Geranium macrorrhizum would work under the cherry and towards the house, moving through to ones which require more sun at the end of the bed. A low evergreen edging might work too, such as London Pride or Bergenias. Providing you mulched with something like chipped bark, you'd avoid the need to mow there all the time and the weeding would be pretty modest.