Hello, does anyone know the names of these plants in the above photos:
- @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool on 3 Sept of 39 Osborne Street, Stockport: in the last photo, the plants with purple & green leaves; - @scroggin on 8 Sept of RHS Wisley: 4th photo of orange flowers with dark leaves in the borders, that look like some sort of dahlia?
Visited Chatsworth last week. It was great to see all the changes that were made during lockdown, my first visit in a few years, always amazing. I particularly loved the two late summer gardens either side of the maze, a great contrast in the use of late summer plants.
The Tropical border was at it's best, full and exotic and I think this one out of the two might be most people's favourite.
The grass border at the other end was just as lovely using more subtle planting, which I love. The ruby red Miscanthus dominated throughout with a few other plants repeated. Not shown in this photo, it included Actaea simplex atropurpurea en masse. The scent was throughout the whole garden. Beautiful in it's simplicity
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
The Tropical Border was my favourite of the two, Suze. The other one was done by Tom Stuart Smith and I think the plant palette is too similar to the rest of his plantings in the Rock Garden and Arcadia.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
@Loxley I hadn't been to Chatsworth for such a long time it was a really lovely day out. Everything is done so well from the Ice Cream to the stable shop selling plants from the garden. I did buy a grass new to me Sesleria autumnaliis The veg garden was good too but then it always is. I love to visit the garden shop always something different to see. The list goes on and remembering that one day will make me smile in the dark cold months when I can't go in the garden. Always magical.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
The Kyoto garden in Holland Park, originally set up in 1991 revamped in 2017. Sorry about random bod in one pic but couldn't always get a clear shot, too many people walking through and stopping at the wrong time.
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- @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool on 3 Sept of 39 Osborne Street, Stockport: in the last photo, the plants with purple & green leaves;
- @scroggin on 8 Sept of RHS Wisley: 4th photo of orange flowers with dark leaves in the borders, that look like some sort of dahlia?
Thank you.
The Tropical border was at it's best, full and exotic and I think this one out of the two might be most people's favourite.
The grass border at the other end was just as lovely using more subtle planting, which I love. The ruby red Miscanthus dominated throughout with a few other plants repeated. Not shown in this photo, it included Actaea simplex atropurpurea en masse. The scent was throughout the whole garden. Beautiful in it's simplicity
The veg garden was good too but then it always is. I love to visit the garden shop always something different to see. The list goes on and remembering that one day will make me smile in the dark cold months when I can't go in the garden. Always magical.