I think green, yellow or plum foliage is vital for whites doc. You need a unifying theme for them. I've used variegated foliage too - the ones with cream are particularly good.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
For me, a short conveyor belt of planting has lurched into action today - spurred on by a new purchase Just need to clear an area of clover roots...
The Big Chain is blocked, not by a plant but by my hen's sand pit, a heavy and awkward piece of furniture and I can't think where to move it. Can leave that for a while as plant 2 is still flowering... That involves about 8 plants and 4 on my wish list...
Everything I'm moving is for a reason, can't see out the arbor, trips me over on the path, can't reach it to water, needed for continuity, would look fab next to...etc
Sideshow Bob is certainly handsome. Tetley I can't just put plants in anywhere either. They have to work with surrounding plants, if they don't I end up moving them.
Great thread Verdun, I think blue flowers are the most useful because along with green of course they 'go' with every other colour so make great links between different pinks or between pinks and reds, or even oranges, I'm not keen on too much white, unless it's set off with dark glossy foliage it can look so bland and yellow seems to break a chain rather than let it flow.
My planting usually goes wrong when I plant something I have only seen in pictures before and it's overall shape is different to what I had in my head, then of course I realise where it would work and a whole other chain is started.
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I think green, yellow or plum foliage is vital for whites doc. You need a unifying theme for them. I've used variegated foliage too - the ones with cream are particularly good.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Some of my chains are so long that by the time I reach the end I've forgotten the beginning.
Or is it the other way round
In the sticks near Peterborough
For me, a short conveyor belt of planting has lurched into action today - spurred on by a new purchase
Just need to clear an area of clover roots...
The Big Chain is blocked, not by a plant but by my hen's sand pit, a heavy and awkward piece of furniture and I can't think where to move it. Can leave that for a while as plant 2 is still flowering...
That involves about 8 plants and 4 on my wish list...
Everything I'm moving is for a reason, can't see out the arbor, trips me over on the path, can't reach it to water, needed for continuity, would look fab next to...etc
Meet Sideshow Bob, the only 'male' plant I have. I'll leave you to make up your own jokes about the angle of the picture!
Brilliant B3 - looks just like him!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sideshow Bob is certainly handsome. Tetley I can't just put plants in anywhere either. They have to work with surrounding plants, if they don't I end up moving them.
Great thread Verdun, I think blue flowers are the most useful because along with green of course they 'go' with every other colour so make great links between different pinks or between pinks and reds, or even oranges, I'm not keen on too much white, unless it's set off with dark glossy foliage it can look so bland and yellow seems to break a chain rather than let it flow.
My planting usually goes wrong when I plant something I have only seen in pictures before and it's overall shape is different to what I had in my head, then of course I realise where it would work and a whole other chain is started.