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Autumn Fades into Winter
Here are the last glimpses of autumn in my Amsterdam trial gardens. As a photographer I can make carefully composed images, but this “walking video” gives you the wider view.
Posted in Garden Month By Month, Meadows 101
Tagged grasses, naturalistic planting, perennials
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Autumnal Textures over Perennial Colour
My trial gardens in Amsterdam have teetered on the edge of chaos this year as a result of moving house. Weeds are under control and wayward growth ruthlessly chopped down, but I long for a clean sweep and the fresh growing … Continue reading
Posted in Garden moods
Tagged garden design, Perennial Meadows, Perennial Perspectives, perennials, plant textures, planting design
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Late Summer Colour in the Perennial Meadows’ Garden
My trial gardens in Amsterdam seem to have waltzed through the colour wheel this year in spite of the difficulties that weather has throw at them. Spring was too dry, the first half of summer was cold and dry, then … Continue reading
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Tagged grasses, Perennial Meadows, Perennial Perspectives, perennials, planting design, theme plants
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An Ornamental Grass to Use in Shade
Grasses are mostly used in our gardens in sunny sites to bring texture, contrast and movement to our planting schemes, but in shade their are few that will thrive and offer us the same qualities. Instead we tend to use … Continue reading
Posted in Plant Recipes for perennial meadows
Tagged grasses, perennials, planting design
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Using Hakonechloa macra Grass in a Perennial Meadow.
This is an ornamental grass I have used mainly as a pot specimen or as a front of border edging plant in the past, but lets think about how we might use it as a theme plant within a mixed … Continue reading
Plant Recipes for Perennial Meadows
A single plant portrait can seduce us into wanting to own and grow it, but it is only by mixing, matching and contrasting different plants in our garden borders that we can fully appreciate their subtleties and characters. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged naturalistic planting, perennials, planting design
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Dry Shade
Two words that seem to trigger instant depression for gardeners: dry and shade. Yes, of course, plants need water and light to grow, but some can do with less. In some ways dry shade can offer opportunities that more clement … Continue reading
Hemerocallis dumortieri – the earliest flowering daylily
Hemerocallis dumortieri is the earliest flowering daylily in my garden and for this reason alone it deserves our attention. Daylilies are deservedly popular as they are easily grown perennials that flower over a long summer season. In America their popularity … Continue reading
Posted in Top Perennials
Tagged flowers, naturalistic planting, perennials, planting design, theme plants
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Blue Tulips
My recent post on red tulips was intended to make a serious design point about using tulips as complementary plants in perennial meadow planting schemes; what follows is more of a celebration of what this incredible flower has to offer. … Continue reading
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Tagged complementary plants, perennials, planting design, tulips
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Pachyphragma machrophyllum a white flowered ground-cover perennial for spring gardens.
Some plants are recommended time and again whilst others, even though they are better, are completely ignored. This is I suppose not only the province of plants, people are also victims of such narrow vision. It is time to sing … Continue reading
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Tagged garden design, matrix planting, perennials, Perennials from seed, planting design
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