Planting in the curved border provides a productive & attractive backdrop of two fan-trained apple trees, with a succession of herbs, annuals, perennials and shrubs providing food for birds, bees & butterflies (shown in brackets below). A backbone of evergreen grasses holds the scheme together and adds texture.

To reduce weed growth and watering requirements, a weed-suppressing membrane was used under the pebble mulch, and plants were spaced out to allow access to the retractable washing line.

1 Mid season fan trained apple tree - Discovery
2 Ceanothus Concha (bees/nectar)
3 Fan trained early season apple tree - Egremont Russett
4 Perovskia Blue Spire (bees)
5 Hyssopus Officinalis (butterflies/bees)
6 Poppies
7 Red Nasturtium (bees)
8 Helictotrichon Sempivirens - blue oat grass
9 Helenium Moerheim Beauty
10 Rosmarinus Officinalis (bees)
11 Eryngium Amethystinum (butterflies/bees)
12 Lavendula Hidcote (butterflies/bees/nectar)
13 Chives
14 Echinops Ritro Veitch's Blue (butterflies/bees/birds)
15 Borage (bees)
16 Cornflowers
17 Festuca Glauca
18 Poppies
19 Lavendula Stoechas (butterflies/bees/nectar)
20 Thymus vulgaris (butterflies/bees)
21 Salvia Officinalis Purpurascens - purple sage
22 Stachys Byzantia
23 Ophiopogon Planiscapus Nigrescens