Just a quick note, since I did say it would be daily...
Today I was in Crawley for an OU tutorial, so I walked through the main park. This has some very good planting in it: lots of shrubs and so on all done so as they feel really satisfying through the year. The parks in Crawley are pretty special to be honest - one day I'll show some pictures of Tilgate park, where they have everything a park should have. Today I mainly noticed the magnolia stellata's - very strikingly placed each one beside a bigger evergreen, which showed them off beautifully.
It's important what you put things with - I've either inherited a garden or mine have just grown like Topsy, but occasionally I fluke it, and it is very noticeable. Once I put pale cream eschelotzias (sp?) (Californian poppy) in front of a dark-stained fence, and then deepest purple petunias in front of them. It was fantastic! and very dramatic.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to following you and your garden into summer.
Good! Yes - a lot of my best result have been flukes, self-seedings and so on. I make notes of the good ones but many are hard to reproduce. I must take some more photos, both nitty-gritty overall ones, and also some juicier ones of the bits that look nice, because it's all happening from now on really.
ReplyDelete[bit shaken, just fallen up the stairs - again! If I'm like this at 35, imagine me at 80!]