The playhouse has a new home in our backyard and it is finally time to make it feel like part of the landscape. In this video I am sharing my plans for the new garden beds that will wrap around the playhouse and connect it to the rest of the yard, while still keeping plenty of room for the kids to play.
Every plant I am using will be from Proven Winners, including ColorChoice shrubs, perennials, and annuals. I will walk you through the layout, the color palette I am leaning toward, and how I am choosing plants that look beautiful, feel intentional, and can handle being next to an active play space.
If you have been wanting to create a playhouse garden or you are just looking for ideas to mix shrubs, perennials, and annuals together, this will give you a starting point.
In this video
• Layout of the new beds
• Proven Winners ColorChoice shrubs, perennials, and annuals
• How to keep the play area functional
• Ways to connect the new beds with existing gardens
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Hey friends. So today we are out at my house in the backyard. We have finally moved the playhouse. We made a video probably a year ago where Chris and I were going over the plans for this. Well, we have officially locked down the plans. It’s moved and I’m going to tell you all about it. So, the playhouse has finally been moved. We painted it a few weeks ago and Chris was like, “If we don’t move it, we’re never gonna get those garden beds done that we want to have done.” And we made that video on here about a year ago. So, it’s about due that we get this thing done, right? But I’m going to show you plants that we have selected and where we’re going to put them, how to incorporate them um with the playhouse and all of the things. How to really keep in mind that these are going to have kids running around over here. So, we didn’t Like I would have loved to have done some rose bushes, but I just can’t because those kids, especially the boys, are wild in here. Um, but I’m going to come back here and this here is going to be a nine bark, the summer wine, and then there’s a snippet welia. Believe it’s the dark leaf. Um, it’s actually a lighter leaf one with pinks in it. So that will go here in the front of the nine bark. And then we’ll have two hydrangeas that flank that and those will be the tidbit um hydrangeas, the panacle hydrangeas here in front of there. So it’s really going to be pop off that nine bark. Story about the nine bark is that my brother and sister-in-law used to own our home, our old home, and they moved in and I had this massive nine bark and it was precious. It was so big. The blooms were beautiful. I absolutely loved it and it was really showy against that white home. Well, when we sold it to them, they didn’t like it. And that’s totally fine. Everybody has their preference on plants and what they like and what they don’t like. And they just happen to not like that one. They kept all my hydrangeas, thankfully, because they look so beautiful over there. Um, but they tore that one out and ever since then, I’ve just really wanted a place to put one. So, now I have a place for one that I can enjoy. um for a while. It takes them a little bit to get to get uh going because they get what is it five yearsish before they really reach their full uh height and width. So, it’ll be a little bit. But back here around this tree, we are going to do we’re going to get into the mulch around the tree and we’re going to put in um salvia. A pink fusion salvia is going to go around that. And then so our plan is to kind of come around here like such and wind back around there. So we’re not going to incorporate the existing landscape just yet. We will eventually, but at that time we’re going to rip out all of the river rock that we have in our landscape. And that is a large task. I asked Chris to do it and he was like, “I don’t think you realize how big big of a job that is.” I’m like, “Fair point.” Okay. So, I’m going to hold off on that. So, we’re just going to leave like a strip of grass over on the side so the mower can get through. Leave the existing landscape for now and then eventually we’ll work it all in together. But, I’m going to show you. I’m going to move this camera. I’m going to show you back behind uh just a couple small things back there and then what we’re doing on the side over there. So, as this comes around, so we’ll have that swooped around with the uh pink fusion salvia and that’s going to kind of be our ending point for around here. It’s a little round and then that’ll be the edge of where that nine bark is going to sit over here in the hydrangeanger. So, the hydrangeanger is going to probably stop in here somewhere. And I want to kind of keep it simple back here. The kids are going to maybe jump off of here. So I need something a little bit hearty. Um so we’re actually just going to do one, two, three of the tater tot arborites um by Spring Meadow Color Choice Shrubs. So we’ll do three of those. Maybe I’ll put an alium in there because we’re that’s what we’re going to do over here. Um but I don’t know. I just wanted to keep it simple cuz you’re going to have the pink fusion salvia here. That shrub gets two to three foot here on the edge there, two to three foot here, and likewise up there. Um, so just wanted greens. And then that way we also wanted if people are driving past, you can kind of see you straight through the yard here that I wanted people to be able to see still to our back um to the right behind you is the garden bed we have existing with all the limelight hydrangeas and everything. So that is my thought process there to kind of keep that a little bit lower. So I went with a little bit of a smaller hydrangeanger here. That way you could keep that eye path so it just keeps going back and back. Uh we just keep joking that we keep adding all of this stuff and like the person who buys this house is either someday, not anytime soon, but is going to have to love plants or they’re just going to take a bulldozer to everything because they’re going to be like, “All right, no way I’m keeping up with all of this stuff.” But we love it. And while we’re here, we’re going to do what we love, right? And where I’m standing here, we are going to do two of the wee bit. I believe that’s the name of it. The really small hydrangeas. It’s a smooth hydrangeanger. They get about 2 foot by 2 foot maximum, maybe 2 and 1/2t. So they’re just going to stay nice and compact and so people can still obviously from the road you can see the playhouse. You can see everything around it. Didn’t want anything big. Um, we thought about doing hanging baskets here, but the hanging baskets that we all have to put here, while that is a great idea, they’re going to have to be smaller ones. And the smaller ones dry out really fast. And I already am out here watering all the time. So, if I could just leave this to being perennials and shrubs and as little watering as possible out here eventually, that would be ideal. Now, I’m going to give you kind of a front view of everything and how this is all going to lay out. So it gets a little complicated up here because it’s kind of narrow. So in here right here is going to be like a pathway and all of this weed mat that is already down is going to be rubber mulch in the front side. So like to here is going to be rubber mulch and everything underneath back there will probably be like a black trap rock and then everything else around that will be mulched. We have a lot of mulching. I hate mulching. Have I mentioned that? And we already have that garden bed back there. That took us a couple hours this year and now we’re adding this. So the mulching days thankfully my kids are getting older and they’re just going to start helping. Right. Anyways, so the pathway is going to be here and I think it’s going to mimic. We’re putting a pathway right there that’s going to round back to that uh garden bed back there. So, it’ll be that same pebble with stone. This pathway might be different. We haven’t decided what we’re going to do yet. Um I don’t know if I want the kids running around in this pathway with those pebbles. I know that I’ve done glue before, but it just they didn’t stick. It was like $300 to do that whole garden bed and it lasted for a season. So, I wasn’t super excited about that idea. But anyways, we’re going to line this border with that same pink fusion salvia. So, that’s So, we’re going to do a couple here and do three of them here. And that way when you’re looking in, right, you’re looking in here, you can see the tree back there. And that’s going to be wrapped with that pink salvia. And you’re just going to see it’s just going to flow nicely here. Um, and then next to it, we’ll do a couple of the not the luminary flocks. I want to do a shorter one, the middle one. I can’t remember the names of them, but it’s going to be a pinkish white uh flocks that are going to go here from Walter’s Garden. And then here we’re going to do the tater tot aravide. We’re going to do the pink or the we’re going to do actually an aliium here. The serendipity alium. Another tater tot. And then serendipity again. alium. And then we’re just going to repeat that here. We’ll do one flock there. Repeat that here. Uh, right there. Because there’s not going to be a ton of room that we’re just going to have about this much room. So, it’ll go there. Here. We might be able to get a couple aliium in there with the width being a little bit bigger, but not a ton bigger than over there. And then what I’m really excited about on this side, kind of back to where we started. So you’ll see again, this is going to be the same garden bed as here. So it’s just going to kind of swing in real tight and just a way to access that garden there. So here is going to be really fun because it’s going to let the girls kind of have a hand at, you know, planting flowers and all of that stuff. So there’s a maine makes a 48 in raised garden bed. It usually has legs to it, but I’m going to set it on the ground. Uh, we used it in one of our photo shoots for the Proven Winners Gardener idea book, and I really loved them. They’re wider, they’re taller, 48 in. It’s going to be white. I’m going to have it set on the ground. And I’m going to let them plant like zenyas, renculas, whatever they want to do, you know, and if that’s too hard, like if they have a hard time growing that, they don’t want to grow that, they can do whatever wildflower they want. Um, so I just want to let them have a really cute little cut garden here. They have window boxes up here already. Um, so yeah, that’s kind of that’s it. It took me a long time. I say a long time, like a little over a week to really just like my wheels just couldn’t get it together. Like I just was not I could not come up with a design plan. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. So, I got the oldfashioned cataloges out from Spring Meadow. Got the catalog out from Walter’s Garden, and then I just went to town. One thing I did forget to tell you is the tater tots in the back. My plan eventually is once those get big enough, I’m going to plant annuals, um, sun patients around all three of those so there’s more color on the ground. It’s going to fill the gaps. And then the same with up here. My plan is if there are gaps in like the first year, I want to take maybe like lemon coral sedum, something that is like a ground cover for the year, just an annual, and just kind of let it fill in the space for the season. It might take a couple years, right? Cuz it’s they sleep, they creep, they leap. So, it’ll take, you know, three years before these even start to show any big growth. Um, so hopefully we can get those planted soon. I’m going to place that order. We’re doing actually we’re going to plant up mom and dad. My parents, they did a new addition and remodel at their house. So, we’re doing their landscape in front of their new porch. Probably hopefully get all ordered within the next week or so and get it planted because I like to plant more in the fall. That way I’m not watering near as much as when I do it midsummer. So, I hope you enjoyed and stick around for when we get to plant everything and I really get to put Chris to work, right? So, we’ll see you guys soon. Bye.
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