Planting Suggestions
Plants are repeated with one or two specimens strongly featured
in a limited colour pallette. Another option is to have each bed
planted with different plants, but in a single colour. They tend to
be structural, standard or clipped varieties, but the visual
appearance of a formal garden can be considerably softened by low
growing plants such as spilling onto the paving.
Ornamental clipped hedges
- box (also topiary planted in containers)
- lavender
- yew
- cypress
Flowering plants
- standard roses
- lilies
- hebes
- tulips
Structural plants
Herb garden, based on a paved (use a single size) or even a
circular chequerboard with planting replacing alternate slabs and a
specimen bay tree in the central planting hole)
- thyme
- sage
- parsley
- marjoram
- rosemary
- mint