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Morning light illuminating Astrantia major ‘Alba’
Morning light illuminating Astrantia major ‘Alba’. Such intricate & beautiful flowers brighten a shady corner of the garden. Flowers from June - once the first flush has finished, cut back foliage & spent flowers close to the ground & a second flush soon...
Digitalis lutea glows in a dappled shade mixed flower bed
Digitalis lutea glows in a dappled shade mixed flower bed - a perennial foxglove that sends up a main flower spike with multiple flowering side shoots (June to August), having such beautiful delicate pale lemon yellow tubular flowers that bees love. Leave it to...
Morning sunshine lighting up Erigeron karvinskianus
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 for months,...
Another week of excellent supervision by my best friend & garden companion, Teddy 🥰🤎
Another week of excellent supervision by my best friend & garden companion, Teddy 🥰🤎
Love this summer-flowering combination for the front of beds/borders – Alchemilla mollis intertwined with Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’
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 garden!)...
One of my most favourite roses – Rosa ‘Gertrude Jekyll’
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 this...
A fun mix of colours in a long southeast-facing border!
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’...
It’s been a total pleasure working with a family on revitalising their flower beds along this south-facing terrace
It’s been a total pleasure working with @kathrynevans21 & family on revitalising their flower beds along this south-facing terrace (full-sun to dappled-shade). We’ve used a mixture of gorgeous inherited, specimen & new plants to bring colour, texture &...
Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’
Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’, one of my favourite go-to plants for its colour, longevity of flowering, wildlife friendliness & how easy it is to propagate by division. Happy weekend everyone!
Our first dragonfly & damselfly on a sunny May afternoon
What a treat! Our first dragonfly & damselfly on a sunny May afternoon 💙❤️ We love having a pond & all of the wildlife it attracts.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show week
One of my favourite times of the year…when the bearded irises flower & it’s the RHS Chelsea Flower Show week🌸 If you need a helping hand redesigning existing or creating new flower beds & borders, please do get in touch with The Kingsland Gardener, as we are...
A very pretty combination for a sunny south-facing bed
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...