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January 9, 2024 lauren ainley

Picking plants for your new build house

We often receive the question, “What plants should I use in my new garden?”. You might already have some Ilex shrubs, a Birch or Maple tree, or even a Laurel hedge. Imagine how empty your home’s exterior would look without any greenery.
This blog post is dedicated to helping you choose the right plants for a lush, green garden that remains manageable and doesn’t turn into an overgrown jungle.
a bright garden filled with plants and bushes, what plants can you put in your new build garden
If you are interested we do have an existing blog all about some of the common diseases for Cherry Laurels and how to care for the plants here. Nothing looks quite as good as topiary plants, you see them in famous places such as the Palace of Versailles.
With proper care, topiary plants can make a garden look stunning. For a new build, you probably won't need as many topiary plants unless you're aiming for a palace-like appearance. However, you might still want to consider using similar topiary shapes to enhance the beauty of your garden.
Bright colourful flowers that will fit well in your garden
Buxus Hedging is so versatile and in a cone, cube, ball or spiral shape it really can make your garden stand out, it doesn’t have to be Buxus that is used as you can use plants like Ilex or Yew!
Lollipop Trees are a popular form of Topiary as well, Lollipop is an informal term used widely to describe the shape of the tree. Now you have a suggestion for a hedge and some great specimen plants to bring attention to the garden, you may want some basic shrubbery groundcover.
Suggestions for common shrub groundcover: Lonicera –a useful bushy, evergreen shrub. A great alternative to box hedging, it has densely packed small oval leaves and creamy white flowers in Summer and it does grow faster than box as well. It is excellent as it can be planted anywhere and has a high tolerance of clipping as it is fast growing.
Cornus- Or dogwood are deciduous shrubs with bright showy stems. They bear lance-shaped mid green leaves which have beautiful autumn colouring and small, star shaped flowers. Flowers are followed by loose cluster of strawberry like berries.
Lavender – A classic plant that I am sure you already had in mind but were just a bit unsure on whether it fits in? But with its silver-grey leaves with masses of lovely flowers that are so attractive to butterflies and bees it will fit right in with whatever plant you have
Euonymus – Grown for their attractive colourful foliage and autumnal colours. The leaves are simple and vary in both shape and colour between different species. Be sure to take a peek through our selection to find the colour you are wanting!
Skimmia - Perfect for planting in a border. Bearing small star-shaped flowers in spring, some of which smell fantastic. These are followed, on female plants by round fleshy, red to black fruits
These are just a few of the plants at our nursery that would fit well in a newly built garden. If you find anything on our site and would like to know more about it, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@grasslands.co.uk or message us your inquiry here!
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