A revisit to RHS Wisley in March 2015, to compliment my recent workshop on shade gardening - and there is certainly no lack of colour to be had in these woodland places ....
Day: April 29, 2017
In dappled woodland shade, much colour at Kew Gardens … a veritable rainbow of red, yellow, pink, blue, orange, purple (somewhere), green of course – and white … @kewgardens #SpringAtKew
A reblog of a Spring post from the Woodland Garden at Kew – the end of March 2015. Adding some colour to the long lists I’ve just posted on the art of gardening in shade …
Leucojum aestevum against blue Scilla
Leucojum aestuvum in great drifts in the borders surrounding the Temple of Aeolus, the very cultivated woodland area at Kew Gardens. Hints of the expansive carpets of Scilla in the background.
Summer snowflake – Leucojum aestevum
Great drifts of vigorous Scilla
Scilla colonising these banks
Scilla in detail
Iris lazica
Iris lazica
Pulmonaria rubra
Stachyurus praecox var matzuzakii with great pendant curtains of flower
Stachyurus praecox
Drifts of scilla continue
Magnolia stellata and the Temple of Aeolus on the mount
Renovation work on the grass edging
Crown Imperial Fritillaries
Scilla and daffodils in the dappled shade of the woodland
Blue and white Scilla
Arum creticum
Arum creticum
More blue and the rarer, white scilla
Highly scented Crown Imperials
Loving the dappled shade, these Fritillaria imperialis
Cornus mas
Cornus mas with matching lichen
Hercules and Aechelus in the lake
Plaque for the lake fountain sculpture and…
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Kew Gardens – the Woodland Gardens providing welcome shade, dappled and deep and a rich tapestry of leaf, flower & fragrance
I thought I’d reblog this post following my workshop at Petersham Nurseries earlier this week – gardening in the shade – Spring through early Summer. This post was in June 2015. My notes for the workshop will be up in a new post soon.
After giving a talk on the beauty and possibilities of gardening in the shade – indeed on a day like today and with temperatures set to soar next week, the necessity of shade and all that means, it was a timely visit to the woodland gardens beneath the tall trees that wrap around the lower slopes of the Temple of Aeolus. These are well tended, heavily mulched and well watered gardens though many of the plants will cope with much drier soils and some, deeper shade again.
Green is the thing – with such a variety of leaf shape, form, colour and texture that it is by no means boring. Bold, grass-like, pleated, rough, shiny, tiny, the filtered light allows all of the detail to be seen. While the over-arching colour scheme is green, the same cool light allows the flowers to stand out – they pack quite a punch…
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