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PLAYING WITH COLOURS

Edrich — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:25:57 +0000

One can add depth and appeal to garden design, by using an extensive palette of colours. This can be applied to all of the materials incorporated in creating a unique garden.

The first range of materials would be plants. You are not restricted to flowering plants in bringing colour into your garden. Many plants have varied foliage colours. Just look around you when you are outdoors. Try to count how many shades of green you can count, by merely looking at the leaves on the plants around you. Decorative grasses, such as mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus), dwarf mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus kyoto), and jaburan grass (ophiopogon jaburan vittatus) have beautiful green leaves. Black mondo grass (ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens) is a dark purple-black colour and acorus gold grass shimmers like old gold. Agaves are grey-green in colour, while euphorbias are a darker green and four fingers range in colour from pale green to bright orange. Fire chief phormiums are a beautiful rusty red in colour and the leaves on a star jasmine are dark green.

Flowering plants add seasonal colour, such as the bright yellow or deep orange flowers on the day lily. Gorgeously dainty pink flowers adorn the gaura – butterfly plant – and who can resist the blood red of a rose?

You can also use pebbles, rocks, stepping stones, pots, sculptures and benches to add colour to your garden. The possibilities are truly endless! Our landscaping gurus will astound you with their inspired ideas.

Should you wish to have your very own Kingfisher garden, you can contact our office on (012) 460 7990 or send us an e-mail to edrich@badecbros.com and we will send one of our highly experienced and innovative landscaping designers out to create a unique garden design, tailored to your specific needs. You will also be provided with a free, no-obligation quotation. Our team of dedicated professionals has been designing and implementing exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner for the past 12 years.

We can also provide the home owner with any exterior decorative feature. We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service. We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

Linda Poultney ©

PLAYING WITH TEXTURES

Edrich — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:58:35 +0000

The use of various textures in garden design adds interest and dimensionality to the overall aesthetic appearance of your garden. You can use a varied plant palette to add sensuality to your garden. Decorative grasses, such as mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus), dwarf mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus kyoto), jaburan grass (ophiopogon jaburan vittatus) and black mondo grass (ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens) create a soft, waving appearance, especially when planted en masse. Plump, waxy succulents, such as rock roses, euphorbias, kalanchoes and aloes add a sense of fecundity and display beautifully as feature plants. Spiky plants, such as agaves, yuccas and cacti add a theatrical sense to your garden and are best flaunted as feature plants or border plants. Dainty, flowering plants normally add splashes of colour and an almost impish ambience to your garden.

Other materials that can be used to incorporate interesting textured levels into your garden include pebbles, rocks, slate rock, stepping stones, wooden decking, bark chips, concrete screed surfaces and mosaic. Sculptural elements, such as dogon ladders, dogon benches, planters, sculptures and mill stones are also ideal in adding interesting textures to your garden.

The possibilities are truly endless! Our landscaping gurus will astound you with their inspired ideas.

Linda Poultney ©

ORNAMENTAL GRASSES

Edrich — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:12:33 +0000

The landscaping professionals at Kingfisher Landscaping can incorporate ornamental grasses into your garden design, should you be looking for plants that are decorative, perennial, hardy and low maintenance.

Ornamental grasses add movement and texture to your garden, and are both heat and cold tolerant. They can grow in full sun or in the shade and can adapt to just about any type of soil. They will complement any type of garden design and create a natural eco system in your garden. Ornamental grasses are available in an extensive array of heights, colours and textures.

Examples of Ornamental Grasses are as follow:

Ophiopogon grasses, such as mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus), dwarf mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus kyoto), jaburan grass (ophiopogon jaburan vittatus), and black mondo grass (ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens).

Sedge grasses, such as orange New Zealand sedge (carex testacies), New Zealand hair sedge (carex comas ‘frosted curls’), New Zealand leather leaf sedge (Carex bacchanalia ‘red rooster’) blue sedge grass (carex flaccid Glauca), evergold sedge (carex hachijoensis), gold band sedge (carex morrowii), and little midge palm sedge (carex muskingumensis).

Fescue grasses such as, large tufted fescue (festuca amethystine), spring blue fescue (festuca cinerea ‘fruehlingsblau’), bearskin fescue (festuca gautieri), giant fescue (festuca gigantea), blue fescue (festuca glauca ‘Select’), Elijah blue fescue (festuca glauca ‘Elijah blue’), boulder blue fescue (festuca glauca ‘Boulder blue’), Idaho blue fescue (festuca idahoensis), atlas fescue (festuca mairei), green fescue (festuca ovina), and hedgehog fescue (festuca punctoria).

Rushes, such as corkscrew rush (juncus effusus ‘Spiralis’) and hard rush (juncus inflexus ‘Lovesick Blues’).

Acorus grasses, such as golden Japanese rush (acorus gold), broad leafed variegated acorus (acorus calamus variegates), variegated Japanese rush (acorus gramminus variegata) and mini golden Japanese rush (acorus mini gold).

Three-awn grasses, such as the annual three-awn (aristida adscensionis), spreading three-awn (aristida congesta barbicollis), tassel three-awn (aristida congesta congesta), and the gongoni three-awn (aristida junciformis).

Restios, such as Cape thatching reed (chondropetalum tectorum).