Do you mean isotoma ? I grow a lot of it as summer bedding, because the deer don't munch it. However, because I have to use it such a lot it has become kind of a signature plant. Here is this year's display
What a transformation hollie - bet you're thrilled
Seeds are great for getting instant impact - I did the same when we moved into the house round the corner and I was about to have my first fairylet. No money for anything permanent, but for a couple of packs of scattered seed, I had a good bit of colour and loads of bees
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lovely Fairy. I love how the raised beds go from white to blue, but with the green working hard in both.
and the view across the garden is unrecognisable now - it looks like something out of one of my glossy mags. Is it grasses in the planters either side?
Thanks chicky. No that was the cat deterrent including bamboo skewers - they still managed to get in and c*** in one of them I have the apple trees in them but may put something else like the oak leaf hydrangeas in there instead. There's a little clump of a white saxifrage in the left one which is rather large now - it's nice and sculptural though, so I might do that right round both of them
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Do you mean isotoma ? I grow a lot of it as summer bedding, because the deer don't munch it
. However, because I have to use it such a lot it has become kind of a signature plant
. Here is this year's display
What a transformation hollie - bet you're thrilled
Seeds are great for getting instant impact - I did the same when we moved into the house round the corner and I was about to have my first fairylet. No money for anything permanent, but for a couple of packs of scattered seed, I had a good bit of colour and loads of bees
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Dark and dreich here too hollie. Might take a look for some 'before and afters' like chicky suggested. It'll keep me out of mischief
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Went out to inspect some of my plant pots containing next years summer flowering bulbs.
Aliums already in growth...
And crocus poking through the surface...
Found a pic of my raised beds along the fence near the back door - from spring 2014
and later on in the summer
early summer 2014 - the view from those raised beds
a year on - summer 2015
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lovely Fairy
. I love how the raised beds go from white to blue, but with the green working hard in both.
and the view across the garden is unrecognisable now - it looks like something out of one of my glossy mags
. Is it grasses in the planters either side?
Thanks chicky. No that was the cat deterrent including bamboo skewers - they still managed to get in and c*** in one of them
I have the apple trees in them but may put something else like the oak leaf hydrangeas in there instead. There's a little clump of a white saxifrage in the left one which is rather large now - it's nice and sculptural though, so I might do that right round both of them 
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The planting in the 2nd pic looks gorgeous against the dark wood.