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January 26, 2012 | Plants by post Plants by post seems like a fairly crazy idea. Especially when 18 large grasses were ordered up in 2 litre pots. On delivery the box got heaved, upended into the shed outside and neglected for 10 days. No-one had remembered to mention the package in the shed and I stumbled across the box, returning [...]  December 8, 2011 | I'm thinking about trees this month This morning the shipping news, poetic as ever, sailed us into the wicked stripping winds of winter. I wasn’t encouraged to leap out of bed; lay thinking of trees taking a pounding. Beside me a copy of “Woodlands” by Oliver Rackham: an unputdownable piece of non fiction. As the wind denudes, my blog this [...] November 28, 2011 | Plantaholic POST: The only drawback to this juicy green and practically white flower is the name. Schizostylis coccinea ‘Pink Marge’. It has never grown well for me but looks dreamy right now in a customer’s free-draining garden. Cohabiting with the black grass Ophiopogon planascapus ‘Nigrescens’ and a shimmery grass Molinia caerulea ‘Edith Dudszus‘. Like it? Click to share, [...] November 27, 2011 | Choosing plants for a new planting scheme: Where to begin
porch planting at Great Dixter There are a few rules that you should keep returning to. Consider the effects of foliage, form and texture. Treat the exercise like decorating a room or flower arranging. Think what goes together. For leaves a mixture of large blades and strap leaves, some upright will be [...] November 3, 2011 | Plantaholic Post Malus John Downie – the small crabapple with the cherriest of fruit. We are about to plant an avenue of these trees on a hilltop (if you can call a Suffolk rise in the ground that). A wildflower meadow has been seeded around them. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1415′).each( function(e) { [...] October 31, 2011 | Butter yellow with rust brown Thursday last week was one of those days when the sky had been hung up to dry without being wrung out. It rained and when it stopped, pregnant raindrops hung in the air. Under a soft grey underbelly of cloud. I could almost have fooled myself into being in Cornwall. Walking with squealching feet down [...] October 29, 2011 | A Daunting Planting day The flowerbeds at the wholesaler looked stunning at 8am yesterday morning. I could have spent hours wandering around in the tapestry of beds. Photos snapped and names noted of new sorts of perennials and grasses. The late season has not been touched by frost, and though ‘lifting’ of plants has begun, there is much still [...] October 17, 2011 | If you don't get to know a plant properly, it will trip you up. I know this as I have just fallen flat on my face over peonies. Lovely covetable peonies with their bally flowers, huge and fluffy and oh-so Sarah Bernhardt gorgeous. But with a string in their tail: bad late season leaves that cannot be cut down until the frosts are about to arrive. And the [...] October 12, 2011 | In unlikely love with October from the plant point of view Yesterday I stood outside this house – it belongs to one of my customers and we are planning an autumn tidy up quite soon. The plants have not been staked, watered or minutely weeded around. I’ve not made a visit here since April and the regular gardener does not give much time to flowerbeds. They [...] October 12, 2011 | If you are a thyme lover you might be able to help me out of a spot of bother. I saw this fabulous plant in the Old English Garden in Battersea Park and fell for it immediately. It is incredibly low moundy, roundy and intense in greenness even now as autumn gets its claws in. Did not collar park attendant or passing gardener and say “oi what exactly do you call this thyme?” [...] |
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