@AnniD I think it might be Festiva Maxima...It has a lovely scent.
I planted three bare-root Festiva Maximas this year... they are growing well, but no flowers this year... can't wait for next year! Love the raspberry ripple effect.
Really inspiring to see everyone's garden! I'm still chipping away at our new garden, but I have a more or less finished spot to show off, too! We spent few years without touching it to see what would come up on its own. And indeed things came up. Mainly some mystery roses and bunch of peonies.
We had Itoh peony Keiko in a pot for few years now, it finally was put in the ground this year and seems to be complimenting old rhododendrons that were already in place.
Whole garden is shaped more or less like a strip of land wrapped around the house and is a fairly steep slope. I'm trying to bleak it up in sections/rooms for now. Luckily, there's all sorts of conditions are provided there from full shade to full sun so I'm looking forward to trying a lot of different plants!
For now it's just circles that are ready to be filled around
At the south corner where it's almost all sand i'm currently attempting a circle of white, silver and yellow plants. Alliums, anemones, buttercups, cream and white colored irises complimented with varieties of Lam's ears, angel wings Senecio and euphorbia Silver Swan. Very sparse this year, but it starts to fill up nicely!
Beautiful gardens. Sigh. I am loving this vignette of Verbascum Pink Domino, Astrantia Major (Gill Richardson Group) and a heuchera - unsure which one. And in context in the border (this is in front of the house): We inherited the rose (we think it is Dorothy Perkins) and last autumn I cut it right back to its stump. Last year it took over all of this area of the border (I hadn't improved it then) and tumbled over the fence where my neighbour could enjoy all of the pretty pink blooms. I'll be trying to keep it within bounds this year, training it along the top of the fence and cutting back (it is indestructible). But I'll allow some of it to go over the fence for my neighbour! The hollyhock is Alcea rosea which I'm hoping will be a dark pink.
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I planted three bare-root Festiva Maximas this year... they are growing well, but no flowers this year... can't wait for next year! Love the raspberry ripple effect.
We spent few years without touching it to see what would come up on its own. And indeed things came up. Mainly some mystery roses and bunch of peonies.
We had Itoh peony Keiko in a pot for few years now, it finally was put in the ground this year and seems to be complimenting old rhododendrons that were already in place.
Whole garden is shaped more or less like a strip of land wrapped around the house and is a fairly steep slope. I'm trying to bleak it up in sections/rooms for now. Luckily, there's all sorts of conditions are provided there from full shade to full sun so I'm looking forward to trying a lot of different plants!
For now it's just circles that are ready to be filled around
At the south corner where it's almost all sand i'm currently attempting a circle of white, silver and yellow plants.
Alliums, anemones, buttercups, cream and white colored irises complimented with varieties of Lam's ears, angel wings Senecio and euphorbia Silver Swan. Very sparse this year, but it starts to fill up nicely!
The flower border
And in context in the border (this is in front of the house):
We inherited the rose (we think it is Dorothy Perkins) and last autumn I cut it right back to its stump. Last year it took over all of this area of the border (I hadn't improved it then) and tumbled over the fence where my neighbour could enjoy all of the pretty pink blooms. I'll be trying to keep it within bounds this year, training it along the top of the fence and cutting back (it is indestructible). But I'll allow some of it to go over the fence for my neighbour! The hollyhock is Alcea rosea which I'm hoping will be a dark pink.