Constraint, Repetition and Variation in Garden Design
20 minutesHow to get the “wow” factor into your garden. In this post I explain how to apply simple design principles to create a coherent aesthetic throughout your garden.
Lawn Garden
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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 2021 Review pt2 The Shade Beds
8 minutesThe White Garden | January 2021 12 months of interest The beds immediately along the back of our house form … read more
The White Garden 2021 Review The Greenhouse Border
6 minutesMy garden is divided into various areas each with a different theme and style of planting. What I call the … read more
White planting scheme (September to March)
8 minutesThis autumn-winter planting scheme provides a show of white flowers from September until March (Photo: November 2021) The planting area … read more
Cistus × Corbariensis
3 minutesA handsome evergreen shrubwith masses of flowers in June 3.5ft (1.0m) 5ft (1.5m) white/yellow May/Jun full sun free-draining soil hardy … read more
A Winter Homage to Finlay and Frosts
5 minutes1 “Formal Gardens are (as it were) statues to Nature.“– Ian Hamilton Finlay 2 ⋮ ⋮ “Weather is a third … read more
Clematis alpina Alba – trained on wires
5 minutesVirgin’s bowerClematis alpina AlbaSyn. C. Sibirica 8 ft (2.4 m) 3.5 ft (1 m) white Apr/May (Aug/Sep) part shade free-drained … read more
White Lavandin Lavandula × intermedia ‘Edelweiss’
4 minutesWhite Lavandin ‘Edelweiss’ is a beautiful summer flowering shrub that provides a long season of fragrant blooms later in the … read more
Give Green a Chance The importance of foliage in planting design
3 minutesDesigning a planting scheme on a foliage-first basis is a sure-fire way to a classy garden. In this post I … read more
Early March in the White Garden
1 minuteIn the damp, grey days of February and March, I have had plenty of brightness outside my kitchen door.
Three Fantastic White Hydrangeas
5 minutesHydrangea Annabell produces good cut flowers up to 30cm across People seem to have mixed feelings about hydrangeas. Before I … read more