Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
The Grass Borders at Kew Gardens, another part of these gardens that really is at its peak at this time of year. Catching the late afternoon sun, the stems and seed heads are glowing in every shade of gold imaginable. A perfect place to see a whole catalogue of grasses, how large they grow, their…
Continue reading ➞ Golden brown, texture like sun – the Grass Borders at Kew Gardens
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!…
Continue reading ➞ The Piet Oudolf Glasshouse Borders at RHS Wisley – Poetry in Motion…
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