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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RHS Wisley, Country Gardens Style
The Country Garden at RHS Wisley, a densely planted, enclosed garden, between the double Herbaceous Borders, the Jubilee Rose Gardens, AGM Beds and the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden. Always a favourite part of these extensive gardens, with strong lines formed by rectangular paths and a central round pool - allowing the planting to billow and drape…
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Bring me Sunshine – double the fun with the herbaceous borders @ RHS Gardens, Wisley
The double herbaceous borders at the RHS Gardens at Wisley - lots of colour and some fantastic combinations. Enjoy!
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and the final few from an April afternoon at RHS Wisley…
Violas and wallflowers in a very successful partnership. The viola is Etain, a particularly hardworking plant that will be in flower from spring through to autumn, needing little care other than regular watering and clipping back if it gets too leggy. I shall be copying this next year. Meanwhile, some flamingo pink in the gardens…
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If you go down to the Bluebell woods…
The bluebells are out at Wisley, littering the woodland floor with cyan blue - I was thinking just how much it would cost - in time and money - for us gardeners to recreate the scene when Nature seems to manage quite happily by herself. So much of the gardens at Wisley are tended and…
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If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of many more suprises – Rhododendrons, Battleston Hill, RHS Wisley
A quick scoot around the meandering paths that wind round the slopes of Battleston Hill in the RHS gardens at Wisley. I had a glimpse of what I might find in the Wild Garden, another part of the gardens there, when I visited earlier in the week and had less than an hour to explore…
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If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise – top marks for RHS Wisley
In the Wild Garden - woodland glades at RHS Wisley in Surrey- meandering paths betwixt the Rock Garden, the Alpine Meadow and Seven Acres. Plenty to delight with bluebells, rhododendrons, camellias, tree paeonies, Chinese dogwoods, Ekianthus campanulatus, Fritillaria Imperialis, Bergenias, Dipelta, Acers, the Judas Tree - Cercis siliquastrum and probably every colour in the rainbow.…
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Beschorneria yuccoides – something from Jurassic Park? Starship Trooper? Little Shop of Horrors?
Something from the movies, sci-fi maybe - these red/green/yellow flower spikes, erupting from these spiky, sharply pointed blue-green strappy leaves - and this isn't the end to their weird display. I hope I get back to RHS Wisley in time to see them develop... a sneak preview in the link below - http://www.cooltropicalplants.com/Beschorneria-yuccoides.html
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