New Gardens for
New Construction
Before
Garden Design Maine was hired to create some gardens for a newly constructed house in Saco. The owner was open to suggestions for what might beautify the property. Along with a garden running the length of the house, the customer wanted to install a picket fence in the side yard and asked for flower and ornamental tree suggestions.
Chosen Designs
For the front-of-the-house garden, the customer chose a design that featured a color palette of pinks and purples to create long-blooming elegance and visual interest. A lilac "lollipop" tree served as the showcase specimen and was surrounded by echinacea, deutzia, white peonies and ornamental grasses. Other plants included: drift roses, salvia, gaura, hydrangea macrophylla, weeping redbud, hibiscus, lambs ears and salvia.
Long-blooming Drift Roses and Salvia "Purple Profusion" offer color and delightful scents as people enter and exit through the front entryway.
The fence design was kept simple: a magnolia on either end and a repeating design of hosta, penstemon, catmint, daisies and roses for the panels.Â
