Tag: dogwood

Winter Containers

Categories annuals, Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, Bedding, Bulbs, conifers, container gardening, dark foliage plants, evergreen perennial, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, Hellebore, herbaceous, November, Organic Gardening, Ornamental trees, Petersham Nurseries, Plants for a shady garden?, Seasonal colour, Seeds, shade, Shrubs, White Garden, Winter GardenLeave a Comment on Winter Containers

Stylish winter containers with ideas and examples from Petersham Nurseries; colour, texture, fragrance contrast and harmony for outdoor planting combinations

Dogwoods and container displays…. and car parks

Categories container gardening, Winter Garden2 Comments on Dogwoods and container displays…. and car parks

I saw these pots at Wisley earlier in the week and very effective they are too! Cut 'canes' have been inserted into planted containers - I can see muehlenbeckia in one, though the choice is endless. Left to their own devices, these stems will very likely root but that isn't really the idea. Equally this…

Continue reading ➞ Dogwoods and container displays…. and car parks

Cornus – bright stemmed dogwoods at Kew

Categories Abstract Photography, Architectural Plants, Garden Design, General comment, Seasonal colour, Shrubs, Winter GardenLeave a Comment on Cornus – bright stemmed dogwoods at Kew

Just photographs for this piece, although I am sure I have written about these invaluable providers of colour (and form) in the winter months on other occasions - most likely with reference to the varied stand of dogwoods, willow and rubus at Wisley - like here, planted to double the enjoyment, reflecting their myriad colours…

Continue reading ➞ Cornus – bright stemmed dogwoods at Kew

More strange fruit… Cornus kousa ‘John Slocock’

Categories Autumn garden, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring GardenLeave a Comment on More strange fruit… Cornus kousa ‘John Slocock’

The kousa dogwood -  - a most elegant dogwood, but often lost in the landscape shadow of Cornus florida. For many parts of the country however (referring to the US), C kousa is probably a better choice. In youth the habit is stiffly upright, almost vase-shaped, but with age it becomes rounded to broad-spreading, with…

Continue reading ➞ More strange fruit… Cornus kousa ‘John Slocock’