by Gardener1 | May 16, 2024 | Garden Design, Plant selection
A very pretty combination for a sunny south-facing bed 🌸- Weigela ‘Wine & Roses’ and Rosa ‘Boscobel’ adjacent, with a white-flowering hardy geranium and Veronica gentianoides filling the space between. Hardy pink osteospermum & vinca minor intermingle at the...
by Gardener1 | May 14, 2024 | Uncategorised
For stunning colour, Lithodora diffusa ‘Heavenly Blue’ is one of the most attractive evergreen ground-cover/edging plants you can find. Its vibrant blue flowers are spectacular, often visited by bees. Lithodora is a member of the borage family – it prefers a...
by Gardener1 | May 13, 2024 | Garden Design, Plant selection
White really brightens a shady border – I planted sweet woodruff in the foreground, with white-flowering fern-leaf Dicentra a little farther back. It’s awash with snowdrops earlier in the year, too. (This bed also contains blue-flowering pulmonaria, green...
by Gardener1 | May 8, 2024 | Garden Design
Happy #hedgehogawarenessweek 🦔. What can you do to help hedgehogs in your garden? We have a few wild places in our own garden, including this nestbox my daughter & husband made. It’s been well-used this year, & we regularly see our resident hedgehogs here at...
by Gardener1 | May 7, 2024 | Plant selection
Evening glow…just for a few moments, the sunset illuminated the Euphorbia oblongata & purple aubretia behind…a lovely moment to end the day. #springgarden
