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Simply Stylish [some finishing touches]

A coating of bark on top of the surface of the soil helps reduce annual and perennial weed growth as well as looking attractive.

For a really low maintenance garden, cover the soil with a layer of Mypec (permeable membrane) before planting and adding bark.

We also included a hanging basket on the trellis, which we filled with Scaevola, and some planters with blue and gold summer bedding.

In winter these bedding plants could be replaced with pansies, and in spring with dwarf bulbs and primulas.

The plants in this garden may need pruning from time to time, as they fill their positions.

Eucalyptus gunnii should be cut to the ground each March if you wish it to remain shrub-sized, and tidy gardeners can remove all herbaceous perennial growth towards the end of autumn, enabling the structural plants to offer interest during the winter.

Nothing left now but to sit back and enjoy a bottle of wine amidst the flowers...