I'd like my patio to look...

Beautiful clematis Roses, I'm still waiting for mine to flower. which might take a while because it's freezing here!

Wow, that clematis! It is beautiful!

Have you thought of herbs as well? Rosemary gets quite tall, you could also have a tub of runner beans which often have pretty flowers.

You can grow a clematis in a large pot with canes in for height wildrose also honeysuckle or sweetpeas.Put bamboo canes in the pot tied together at the top like a wigwam.The plants will then climb up them.Not the Montana type clematis though,as they are way too big!

I originally wanted honeysuckle on the arch, but changed my mind, and put the honeysuckle on a strong trellis somewhere else in the garden.

Clematis Freda ( taken a few days ago) this vigorous clematis is great, a smaller flower than some Montanas but a lovely deep pink and tons of flowers.

Serious garden envy gilly

and not a weed to be seen either

a seaside garden, oh, a seaside garden
you said it so casually gillybob

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My small seaside garden is a funny shape and its on quite a slope too. We haven't been in this house very long so its a bit of a work in progress, although we have 2 small patios to take advantage of the sun at various times of the day.

Most of them go into a cold greenhouse with a frost stat in it. The kaffir lime is too big and prickly to move so it just gets wrapped in a fleece and left in its corner.
I've also got a pomegranate. I grow all my culinary herbs out there as well ( to be accurate Gary does)
I have 3 types of thyme, basil, parsley, bay, tarragon sage and oregano. Oh! And lavender of course.

Oh my goodness, lots of help for me here I see! And gorgeous pics too I am entertaining visitors until tomorrow but will read the thread after they leave. I shall need to relax for a day at least so this will make for good reading. Thank you all.

Do they have to be taken indoors in the winter Galen?

Lovely, Roses, you have some of my favourites there.

Not Japanese orange but I have a yuzu I bought last year. I also grow the Kaffir lime for its leaves in Thai cooking

That is lovely roses, you obviously have excellent taste. I can definitely see the resemblance but what you see is nearly all of our garden as it's tiny!

Thank you for the nice comments about our garden, they are really heartening. We have been persuaded to open our garden this year and DH is having a bit of a panic about sweeping, planting, cutting back, weeding, laying bark etc. I keep trying to tell him that it is the overall impression that counts.

Plumbago is lovely blue with pretty leaves, grows 5-6 feet, and is nice in pots.

Thanks for the advice J52.

kitty I have a corner of the garden much like yours.

Yes, Oleander are poisonous, as are many plants that are beautiful in gardens. Quite careful to location of poisonous plants & bushes. Behind windows & doors, up & away, in back, whatever works.

We bought some wonderful old doors at a boot sale. Height and privacy there too. empressofdirt.net/doors-windows-garden/

pensionpat you can probably save your bamboo. I you haven't done so, repot it a larger pot. Use good quality compost and water frequently and well. New little shoots should appear within a couple of weeks.
Last summer I moved two bamboos from one house to another. Against all gardening advice, I had to cut them down to get them in the car.
It took a couple of weeks for them to recover after being repotted. They are a quarter of their original glory, but I'm hoping they will put on more growth this year.

I had an Oleander but I think they are very poisonous. I got rid of it years ago, a shame because they are lovely but better safe than sorry. It was when the next door neighbours' DGC used to lean over the wall for a chat and before we had DGC ourselves.

Love your variety of colour and form Kitty!

Galen and Kitty what beautiful gardens

No mention of Oleander, quite lovely, greenery and flowers are plentiful.

Ive got a bamboo in a pot and it has been well-contained. We moved the pot a couple of weeks ago. The roots had grown through the. Pot into the ground, so it will have been traumatic. It looks dead now. The whole plant. What are the chances of recovery?