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Shrub Garden: Several features spoil this garden and the whole layout adds up to a poor use of the site. The badly laid crazy paving patio clashes with the shape of the house. Retaining walls made from broken cement (3) are unsafe as are the steps (9). The central path divides the rectangular garden into unrelated sections, as do the Shrub Garden beds (1, 2) around the lawn and the laundry line. Other existing features are a specimen tree (7), and an open corner for garbage cans (5). The aim of the landscape designer is to provide a family garden, with safe, attractive steps and hard surfaces.
Night jessamine (Cestrum noctumum) grows to a 12-foot Shrub Garden in its native West Indies but in a 12-inch pot (which is where gardeners in temperate zones must grow it) the plant rarely reaches 6 feet. As a Shrub Garden it's not much to speak about but when its tubular green flowers open to the night air, it produces a perfume that is intensely fragrant. Jessamine should be pruned either after blooming or in early spring. Plants generally bloom all summer and into autumn. Night jessamine is hardy from Zone 9 south but it does very well in post. If the plant is burned by a slight frost it will recover. Use the same soil as with Araujia. |
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