Maintain Plot for One Growing Season?

Sounds like a really fun project, if expensive! I hope we get to see pictures :D

 

Oh definitely:thumb: I think it's going to be really fun
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Oh before I forget can anyone recommend some tropical/Mediterranean looking annuals? as many of the plants in my original list wont be at there best for at least 2 years (unless I can get some mature plants from the local paper/freecycle)

Thanks again!

 

Kal. Coleus look good easy to grow and give the garden a tropical feel.

 

Thanks walnut, I'll give coleus a go also after an input session with my tutor today Ive discovered that the college is having a new building put up and it appears that it will probably be built over the Hort department (you know how it is department with the largest amount of "free land" is the first to go :( ) so our tutor thinks it would be pointless to use perennials which wouldn't reach there best in a year from seed so, Ive decided on a much easier and simpler Idea of a mixed tropical border, although it's a shame i cant go with my original ideas it's still going to look brill:okies:

 

Have you considered the impact of our weather on your mixed tropical border if we get another year like this one? I prefer your ideas of a pond and rock garden! I understand why you want to go for plants that are rather out-of-the-ordinary, but a selection of low-growing alpine and rock garden plants might be a cheaper, colourful and more reliable option. You could contrast with height in pond- and bog-plants round a pond. You wouldn't need to source as much stone, and rockery-stone is easily obtainable. I 'see' a horseshoe-shaped rockery with a calm pool in the U. Also the plants being smaller, will be easier to transport away afterwards! Whatever you choose, hope it goes well!

 

well it's a bit of a cop out really as I can source most of plants from the college glasshouse:D although the weather wasn't brilliant this year the colleges summer bedding looked wonderful, So I'll just hope for the best:flwsml:

 

The u shaped pond sounds cool