See how garden maker Posy Gentles makes a 16ft wide garden look gloriously generous with tips you can use in your narrow garden. #smallbackyard #urbangarden #gardenideas
Posy Gentles gardening is on http://www.posygentles.co.uk/
The spiky, sculptural red-stemmed rose is Rosa sericea subsp. omeiensis f. pteracantha.
0:08:00 The tree on the right is magnolia stellata.
The round balls are box
0:21:00 the upright plant with bright green tips is Taxus baccata ‘David’ (fastigiate yew). It’s the same type of yew at 3.49 mins (it looks as if it had feathery cones).
0:41:00 what looks like a white flowering shrub is actually a clump of very tall white aquilegias.
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17 Comments
Wonderful! I love Posy's garden! Is there somewhere we can find out the names of some of the plants shown? We have a long narrow back yard and it is soooo rectangular and boring with a lawn in the centre, beds on one side of the lawn and our house's terrace on the other. A cypress hedge is at the far end, bookended by two cluttered sheds. All our garden style is in the front yard (see my channel). I am very keen on developing a great garden style in the back and Posy's garden is inspiring! Thanks for posting this video.
Beautiful small garden and very helpful advice.
If I may offer a suggestion I would like the videos to be a little more slow paced with longer and more detailed views of the garden and plants. I am not talking of an hour long video, just few more minutes to give the viewers time to appreciate all the beauty on display and better recognise the plants.
YouTube has a helpful function to change the speed of the video. I usually I use it to speed up boring videos but in your case I slow it down to the lowest notch, lol!
The featured was lovely. I have the opposite problem in my garden because my borders a a bit wider than I would like. I love the garden ideas and inspiration from you channel. 🙂🌺
So pretty. Thank you for sharing, Chris-Raleigh NC
I wouldn't mind a garden that long 💚
I would love to see a walkthrough of this garden so you see every side of it
Lovely to see the garden in summer. A beautiful garden.
Alexandra, this may not be the best place to post this suggestion but I don't really know where else to pt it. Over here in Melbourne Australia we have a lot of wind in our weather, getting worse every year. The wind really plays havoc with the plants in the garden. I have been looking up the internet for how to create a windbreak in a small/mid-size garden (such as 50 feet by thirty feet) where there is a house, then garden beds, various trees and lawn, then the street (front) or fence (back). I can only find advice for farmers who are trying to shelter a huge farm or for houses where the aim is to shelter the house from the wind. I want to shelter my plants from the wind. I am really tired of going out to the front garden and finding leaves torn off hydrangea quercifolia or lavenders and salvias leaning in one direction as they are so windblown, roses snapped from their stems by wind, and so on. If you know someone who has protected their garden with windbreaks or have some other idea how to cover this topic, I would love to see such a video. I am sure other people have windy mid-size gardens too.
I wish your videos were longer.
One of the big advantages to having a small garden is the ease of making experimental changes. Thanks for this video packed with good design tips.
Great ideas 👍 What a beautiful dog you have, what breed is she?
Great advice for a long thin garden and love the idea of not being afraid to experiment with it.
Thank you so much for this great episode, Alexandra! I feel so inspired to start my path with seashells this spring:) thank you for the ideas.
Large swing bench, birch trees, shed, vegetable beds… it can be long and thin but it’s definitely not small.
Oh wow, I looked up images of the rose, and it's gorgeous! Thank you for sharing this with us. I recently found your channel and I'm loving it. Hi from Eastern Canada. 😊
Just discovering this amazing video now, thank you! I do wonder, does anyone know the name of the phenomenal tree at time marker 2:19 that is on the right hand side growing up beside and slightly taller than the brick wall? What a gorgeous plant…!
Lovely video. We've just made an arch for the garden to add some height and I'd love a honeysuckle to climb up it. The arch is about 8ft tall and 90cm deep on each side. Most honeysuckle grow quite tall. I already have the compact rhubarb and custard but could you recommend another one that is a bit taller but wouldn't get out of hand at all please