Great Dixter, Peacock Garden, High Garden and Orchard Garden – a riotous symphony!
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Topiary Lawn, Exotic Garden and Orchard, Great Dixter – a Grand Day Out
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The Long Border, Great Dixter – photos from a warm late-July day, feeling like August
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Fergus Garrett at Great Dixter
A glorious day yesterday at Great Dixter, a Study Day with Fergus Garrett (above) discussing Succession Planting as it applies to these gardens in particular and some advice to take away with us for own own delight and edification. These are extraordinary gardens that continue to delight though their creator, Christopher (Christo) Lloyd died in…
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When is a plant just a plant? (Bring me sunshine…)
Bring me sunshine, enjoy the plants (so much more than plants aren't they?) and pardon me - never mind the bo@@ocks! Bring Me Sunshine - Lyrics by Sylvia Dee Bring me Sunshine, in your smile, Bring me laughter, all the while, In this world where we live, there should be more happiness, So much joy…
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High Summer Gallery – Jewel & Cool colours at Petersham Nurseries and The Cutting Garden
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RHS Wisley – a Rose Garden, a walk in the Woods, another Rose Garden, a Lily Pond and some groovy grass
The Jubilee Rose Garden at RHS Wisley (the old rose garden, being almost entirely roses). Hydrangea paniculata Vanille Fraise (above and below) Hosta in flower Hydrangea quercifolia Harmony (above and below) Hemerocallis Frans Hals (above) Entering the Bowes-Lyon Roses Garden - featuring a little of the companion planting that showed up well in the…
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The Trial Fields at RHS Wisley – Late, large-flowering Clematis. A pretty piece but really no use whatsover!
Having seen this display in the Trial Fields at RHs Wisley, my immediate intent was to produce a useful guide to the plants on show, and document the shape, colour and profusion of the cultivars on trial. I've been down this route before with the viticellas - and sweet peas, delphiniums and very likely more.…
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The Piet Oudolf Glasshouse Borders at RHS Wisley – Poetry in Motion…
I've written about these borders before, the wide double near-mirrored plantings mixing grasses with perennials backed by taller shrubs (some coppiced like the Cotinus) and trees. Striking combinations include the Echinacea with the Eryngium Silver Ghost, and the superb Sanguisorba Red Thunder mixing in with the grasses - likened to a swarm of angry raspberries!…
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