Poolside Garden Puzzle

Existing pool garden, pre-design, with some well established lavender, irises, and other miscellaneous perennials.

A lifelong gardener wanted help envisioning a new garden space along the fence by her pool. She had a list of perennials to use from another property, along with a desired color palette of purples, blues and whites.
Garden Design Maine was hired to puzzle together a design that incorporated as many plants from her other property as possible, while introducing new plants to prolong bloom times from May to frost all while achieving her preferred color palette.

Selected garden plan, which was partially planted in Summer 2024 (left of the walkway). The second half of the installation (to the right of the walkway) will take place Summer 2025.

The chosen garden design used flowering shrubs along the fence, and kept a few well established existing plants such as lavender and baptisia. The customer liked Garden Design Maine's idea to add pops of yellow, via foliage, for additional visual interest.

Panicle hydrangeas, deutzias, summer alliums, catmint, white and purple echinacea, perennial geranium, golden carpet sedum, lady's mantle, lambs ear, ornamental oregano, prairie dropseed, verbena bonariensis, Russian sage, silver and deep purple salvia, scabiosa (pincushion flower), and blue veronica combined to form a visual oasis the customer loved.