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 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 2, 2024 | Garden Design, Plant selection
Beautiful combination of perennial cornflowers (their blue flowers ‘glow’ at dusk) against a backdrop of fresh lime-green foliage of a white-flowered astilbe 💙💚 #gardendesign #springgarden
by Gardener1 | May 1, 2024 | Garden Design, Plant selection
Acid green & yellow of Euphorbia palustris set off by the cool blues of forget-me-nots, one of my favourite springtime combinations in a mixed border. #gardendesign #springgarden
by Gardener1 | Apr 29, 2024 | Garden Design
I love this little wild area of one of my client’s gardens, especially in spring when the choisya & Clematis montana are flowering. We agreed to retain this area as it is, with just a light touch. Birds & pollinating insects love it...
