An Englishman's Garden Adventures
The Lawn Garden is immediately behind my house, in full view from the kitchen and dining room. Planting here comes right up to the house where the long glass doors bring it right into the house.
A White Theme: The planting is dominated by clipped evergreens punctuated with striking pure white flowers including dahlias, iris and foxgloves. The effect of limiting the palette so tightly is effortlessly classy. Less is more.
The White Garden | January 2021 12 months of interest The beds immediately along the back of our house form part of the White … read more
My garden is divided into various areas each with a different theme and style of planting. What I call the White Garden (also known … read more
Yesterday I recorded this little video with my iPad, so not great quality, but it does give a good overview of this area of the garden.
This autumn-winter planting scheme provides a show of white flowers from September until March (Photo: November 2021) The planting area (above) is opposite our … read more
A handsome evergreen shrubwith masses of flowers in June 3.5ft (1.0 m) 5ft (1.5 m) white/yellow May/June full sun free-drained soil evergreenAvoid shade, wind … read more
1 “Formal Gardens are (as it were) statues to Nature.“– Ian Hamilton Finlay 2 ⋮ ⋮ “Weather is a third to place and time” … read more
Virgin’s bowerClematis alpina AlbaSyn. C. Sibirica 8 ft (2.4 m) 3.5 ft (1 m) white Apr/May (Aug/Sep) full sun, part shade free-drained soil I … read more
White Lavandin ‘Edelweiss’ is a beautiful summer flowering shrub that provides a long season of fragrant blooms later in the year than most lavenders. … read more
Designing a planting scheme on a foliage-first basis is a sure-fire way to a classy garden. In this post I will show you how … read more
In the damp, grey days of February and March, I have had plenty of brightness outside my kitchen door.
Hydrangea Annabell produces good cut flowers up to 30cm across People seem to have mixed feelings about hydrangeas. Before I started designing gardens I … read more
The Roselily Series was developed by the De Looff brothers who began in 2001 with a chance double-flowered Oriental lily seedling. From there they … read more