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Michael King is an expert on perennial plants, an author and photographer. Perennial meadows are important within the gardens he designs. This is his blog.-
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Tag Archives: garden design
Mind Gardens – A new series of blog posts
For a garden to be more than just a comfortable place to sit in to drink a cup of coffee there needs to be some sort of idea underpinning its design. Ideas together with constraints guide the design process and … Continue reading
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Tagged garden design, garden moods, grasses, naturalistic planting, Perennial Meadows, planting design
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Dutch Perennial Gardens in the Dry and Hot Summer of 2018
Beauty is to be found in the chaos of nature and this year, in the struggle for life amidst the perennials and shrubs in my gardens. A drier than average spring followed by a totally dry summer in which a … Continue reading
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Shrubs in late spring
It is in late spring, just after the tulips have ended, that I become delighted by the many flowering shrubs and distinctive foliage colours that seem to dominate the garden. Of course there are various perennials flowering including Euphorbia, Geum, … Continue reading
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Would you want this in your garden?
Not everyone would want their garden looking like mine does at this moment. However, what I see is a clean slate; the garden’s perennials have all been broken into small pieces and dropped on the ground where they will rot … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, garden design, naturalistic planting, Oudolf, Perennial Meadows, Sloterdijk
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A Green Summer Perennial Border
The border on the other side of this arch was designed to be green and restful in summer when the rest of the garden is doing its best to call for our attention. Last summer there were heleniums and rudbeckias … Continue reading
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Tagged Dynamic plants, garden design, grasses, naturalistic planting, plant repetition
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Tulips in my garden
Now is the time to make a list of the spring flowering bulbs and especially the tulips you need to order for planting in the autumn. With the bulbs in flower in front of you – there is no better moment to … Continue reading
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The Same Border July and November
By early summer this border had lost the fresh colours of spring bulbs and matured into a gentle green cavern. Now in November, the fountains of ornamental grasses have brought movement to a space that sparkles in the season’s low-angled sunlight. … Continue reading
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Summer, Perennials and Thoughts on Maintenance
Designing mixed perennial meadow plantings is all about choosing plants that work together well over an extended period of time by uniting into a living community where each has a part to play. Books will tell you that such plantings are … Continue reading
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Time to tidy up the Mixed Perennial Garden
This was my garden ten days ago wearing its late winter clothes of dead grass “stems” and perennials with their seed heads. Normally I try and tidy the garden in late winter (February) as it catches precotious cool-season grasses and … Continue reading
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Looking at Garden Planting Design Mistakes
As a keen gardener I am always making mistakes and learning from them, but invariably gardening books only tell us the correct way to do things and only show perfectly composed photographs of gardens to which we must aspire. Looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Dynamic plants, flower color, garden design, Gardening Books, Oudolf, Perennial Perspectives, planting design, tulips
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