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Garden of Abundance Landscape Plan: Romancing the Edible Garden
Want to bring this dreamy, productive garden style into your own space? Here's a landscape plan by landscape architect and illustrator Lisa Nunamaker, as seen in the free and downloadable Best Landscape Plans guide to help you design your own Garden of Abundance.
This design works beautifully for medium-to-large garden spaces and can be adapted to your location, space, and conditions. Use it as inspiration to start integrating more edibles and pollinator plants into your existing beds, or as a fresh start for a new garden project.
1. Strawberry Shake™ Hydrangea
A gorgeous new panicle hydrangea, on a much more compact form. Sturdy stems support big, full flower heads that start out white and mature to a delectable pink. Part to full sun. Up to 5’ tall, 4’ wide. Zones 4-8.
2. Bountiful Blue® Blueberry
An award winning variety with the bluest of foliage! Pink-blushed flowers produce a big crop of large, sweet, juicy berries on a compact, mounded shrub. Full sun. Up to 4’ tall and wide. Zones 6-10.
3. Eau De Parfum™ Bling Rose
Big, delightfully fragrant blooms provide the classic romance of roses with the added benefit of disease resistance brought to you by modern breeding. Full sun. Up to 4’ tall and wide. Zones 5-10.
4. Thumbelina Leigh English Lavender
An extremely aromatic and profuse bloomer, this compact selection produces lovely spikes of violet-blue blooms up to three times per year! Full sun. Up to 18” tall, 12” wide. Zones 5-9.
5. Tuscan Blue Rosemary
Quickly forms an upright hedge of aromatic, needle-like evergreen foliage. Leaves can be used as a flavorful herb in cooking. Full sun. Up to 6’ tall, 4’ wide. Zones 8-11, or grow as annual.
6. Phenomenal Lavender
Elegant, sweetly fragrant mounds of silver foliage yield purple-blue flower spikes with outstanding ornamental and edible qualities. Full sun. Up to 3’ tall and wide. Zones 4-8.
7. Munstead Lavender
A rugged yet beautiful compact evergreen shrub with mounding, aromatic, gray foliage and an abundance of fragrant, rich lavender-colored flower spikes. Up to 18” tall and wide. Full sun. Zones 5-9.
8. Nitty Gritty® White Rose
This very durable, own-root, fuss-free groundcover rose produces an abundance of lovely blooms while offering excellent disease resistance and an easy- care habit. Full sun. Up to 4’ tall and wide. Zones 4-9.
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