Small Tree – Snowy Mespilus or Juneberry (amelanchier Lamarckii)
Amelanchier lamarkii A perfect small garden tree with interest throughout the year The bed nearest our house is filled with woodland plants: clipped box, … read more
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.
Grape Hyacinth ‘Estha’
Latin: Muscari armeniacum ‘Estha’Season: April-May Height: 6in (15cm)Location: full/half sunSoil: any Certain varieties of garden plants just exude class, managing by some magic to … read more
White Willow Gentian
This is the white form of the Willow Gentian, Gentiana asclepiadea alba. It is a choice, slow growing, long-lived and reliable plant for shade … read more
Bee (and butterfly) Heaven
In the background, white English lavender; in the foreground a white Hebe. Both plants have dense spikes containing hundreds of individual flowers which open … read more
Are Hosta Flowers Worthwhile?
I don’t grow Hostas for their flowers; partly, because my plants are in a white garden where their role is to provide foliage texture, … read more
Five Hostas
Hostas are the bad-boys of shade gardening: They come in literally hundreds of named forms with leaves that vary in size from 1 inch … read more
White Asphodel
This is the White asphodel (Asphodelus albus) a plant which is found in the wild from southern Spain to the Balkans. It’s a bee-friendly, … read more
The Lawn Garden
I have just added a series of pages about the latest area of my garden to be completed. I’ve called it ‘The Lawn Garden’ because… well … read more