A beautiful 'wild' garden, how do you do that?
If there is anything 'we' would leave the city for, it is for such a lush, beautiful, seemingly wild garden. One where the wild flowers grow together and you want to skip through them. Of course, the city garden is not suitable for that at all, but perhaps you can make a start? We asked the expert: how do you create a beautiful 'wild' garden?
A wild garden often contains many summer bloomers. Beautiful, but there is one big pitfall: in winter you have a boring piece of land. So we would really like to have some evergreen perennial shrubs among you no brainer put in field flowers. Such as the Viburnum tinus or the viburnum bodnantense. And (of course!) also some (small) fruit trees. A wild garden cannot actually do without them, they produce delicious fruit and they remain attractive even in winter.
And plant one too Helleborus. These bloom before the summer bloomers (in March/April) and can be left standing. Furthermore, Allium (ornamental onion) is very photogenic (see also the photo here). These are summer-flowering bulbs. Super beautiful and very easy: put them in the ground and they will come back every year.
You will also definitely want Forget-me-nots, those are those small blue flowers. These self-seed if you don't clean up too much. You can sow them yourself or buy ready-made plants and plant them in the ground. A year later you might have double that.
The white plants you often see are Chamomile and you can also sow or plant that yourself.
We would also put the following plants in it: Zeeland knot, nightcap, salvia, damselfly in the green, licorice plant, perennial geranium, verbena. Success!