Nothing can beat an outing with a new customer to look at a garden. It’s the best way to get their bounce-off reaction to planting combinations and their sense of delight or displeasure to colours, textures and overall form and shape. A project I am working on at the moment is a small town garden,…
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Two castles: two gardens: a view or two
The double tall beeches make a tunnel along which the visitor travels on the top of a levee above the surrounding landscape. This is the driveway to Drummond Castle, near Criefff in Perthshire. We swooped in like bats and burst out at the far end by a tower house settled on a rock, commanding the…
Bulbs – try out the dolly mixture planting style
Bulbs are opportunists. Most come from the far Eastern end of the Mediterranean, from rocky scree where early snow melt gives a source of water before summer drought. The busting into leaf and flower comes from energy suppled by a modified root and shoot system stored in their fleshy cells. Photosynthesis and pollination accomplished, they…