by Gardener1 | Jul 3, 2024 | Plant selection
Verbascum ‘Snowy Spires’ is one of my top choices for any sunny bed or border. Its flower spikes of pure white with magenta eyes are stunning. Hoverflies amass on the blooms & bees love it too. 🐝 The flowers open from bottom up – when finished, deadhead the...
by Gardener1 | Jul 2, 2024 | Plant selection
Rosa ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ – a fantastic floribunda rose, it is such a reliable & prolific repeat-flowerer with sweetly scented clusters of deep velvety purple blooms, fading to slate blue. It is semi-double & gives great access for bees to forage on...
by Gardener1 | Jun 10, 2024 | Plant selection
Morning sunshine lighting up Erigeron karvinskianus – delighted it has self-seeded into the gravel around our pond. It’s such a charming & useful plant, definitely one of my favourites – not only aesthetically for the clouds of wee daisies held aloft...
by Gardener1 | Jun 6, 2024 | Plant selection
Love this summer-flowering combination for the front of beds/borders – Alchemilla mollis intertwined with Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’ (it’s a smaller, self supporting nepeta that doesn’t require staking…always a plus when recommending for maintenance in a client’s...
by Gardener1 | Jun 5, 2024 | Plant selection
One of my most favourite roses (I have a LOT of favourite roses!) Rosa ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ steals my heart every year – a prolific, healthy repeat-flowerer, beautiful reddish stems, bright, glowing-pink blooms that last for ages, THE most wonderful fragrance…all...
by Gardener1 | Jun 4, 2024 | Plant selection
A fun mix of colours in a long southeast-facing border! I’ve used Buddleja Buzz ‘Indigo’ (not yet in flower) as a scaffold for one of my favourite plants, Geranium psilostemon, shown off by Spirea japonica ‘Goldflame’ behind…another favourite, Geranium ‘Dusky Crug’...
