Boss wants a new garden for work - ideas please

[Pumpkin Becki]

I know you'll all help me.

I've got a small patch of ground at the front of my workplace which my boss wants planted up. Its probably 5m x 2m and very exposed, it gets the sun most of the day and the soil looks pretty sandy. The chap who will ultimately look after it is not a gardener by his own admission.

Our company colours are blue and yellow/ orange and i'd like some ideas for flowering hardy shrubs and perrenials that won't mind being pruned. I'd also like it to be a good place for bees. So far I'm thinking...

Rose of Sharon
Hemerocallis
Hebe
Ceanothus
Daffs and crocus for spring
Lavendars to edge the bed

What do you think, and what would you put in?

[BFG]

Sounds brill. You can't go (far) wrong with hardy perennials.

What about a herb garden? They're tough, low maintenance, pretty, smell nice and are great for bees/butterflies/hoverflies etc.

A lot come with blue or yellow/orange flowers.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Oh, that's an interesting idea. I was also thinking about a Rowan tree - its native, its got berries for the birds.

[pdblake]

Sage is good. Very hardy, very fragrant, bees love it and it flowers blue (well the unknown variety in my herb patch does).

[HeyWayne]

Besides all that - what a cool boss!

[Pumpkin Becki]

Thanks for the ideas, keep 'em coming, and yes, he's a very cool boss - though he doesn't know he's doing it for the bees at the moment, that's my secret weapon!

[Pumpkin Becki]

Excellent news for me and the bees! I showed my MD the design I had drawn up and he said 'Yes! I love it! Place the order!!' I'm going to take photos of it coz i'm chuffed to bits.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Plants arrive tomorrow morning!! I'm getting very excited now, its like Christmas!!

[BumbleB]

Plants arrive tomorrow morning!! I'm getting very excited now, its like Christmas!!

Coo, beats work Becki, how lovely to be able to enjoy your interests while at work. Look forward to the pics.

[srodders]

Any jobs going at your place Becki??

[Pumpkin Becki]

Any jobs going at your place Becki??

That would be quite some commute!!

Plants look fab, I've got a bit of tittivating to do, and then it will be photos agogo!!