Outside

Steps down to lower level

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Bikes storage

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Japanese garden

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Garden bins hidden under garden

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slated path

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Gabion retaining wall.

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Stone seat

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Eastern screened porch

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Moon gate

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Moon gate

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dry stone walls

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Cairns

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soft, creamy ‘Annabelle’ wild hydrangeas (Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’).

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Grow fragrant varieties of climbing roses or wisteria to enjoy the fresh scent as you pass underneath. If you prefer flavor to fragrance, plant grapevines over a structure or train cherry tomatoes up the sides for easy picking. In this English cottage-style garden, the designer planted a blush-pink climbing rose up one side of the arbor and a wine-red clematis to ramble up the

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Place an arbor to mark a change in the landscape, such as at the start of a pathway or where one garden room gives way to another.

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South Coast house by Fergus Scott Architects; Wollongong, New South Wales

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The chemistry is simple: Hydrangeas growing in somewhat alkaline soil are generally pink, while those growing in somewhat acidic soil are blue. If you want to keep your plants pink, simply add limestone around the plant in spring. For blue flowers, amend the soil with aluminum sulfate.

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Water requirement: High Light requirement: Full sun, at least six hours a day; Mature size: 6 to 10 feet tall self-pollinating, Use it as an informal hedge for privacy, by allowing it to grow as a large shrub. Nice container plants The planting hole should be three times as wide as the root ball and a few inches shallower than the root ball.

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Front door - red

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Outside screened in porch

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