Delightful little courtyard garden? No. Just all the ‘driveway plants.’ Every plantaholic has these. The plants that are unloaded from the car waiting in the drive to be planted. This vignette was put together by our British host just before we arrived for a tour. © All photos & text 2010
Archive for the ‘England’ Category
FAUX GARDEN
Posted in Companion Planting, England, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Perennials, Shade Gardening, Uncategorized, tagged England, ferns, garden design, garden Rooms, garden tour, perennials on July 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
GARDEN TOUR ENGLAND & WALES
Posted in Companion Planting, England, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Hydrangeas, mixed border, Perennials, Shrubs, Vegetable Garden, tagged companion planting, England, garden design, gate, hydrangeas, Levens Hall, mixed border, perennial border, Tara, topiary, Wales on June 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Its travel season again. If my passport does not get here in time, I will be homebound. I am consoling myself with photographs from trips past & exercising a mighty imagination! with Tara Dillard (left) above, we enjoyed this perennial garden which we entered via. . . this opened gate, (above) we found. . . along this wall. [...]
FRAMING THE VIEW
Posted in Companion Planting, England, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Perennials, Shade Gardening, tagged companion planting, England, framing the view, garden design, garden Rooms on May 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Recently, Tara Dillard of A Garden View, posted about frames in the landscape. It brought to mind a lovely vignette I saw in a garden while in England. Initially I thought an artist had set up to paint. As I approached I saw What had been ‘Framed’. The lesson here is that framing a view brings it into relief. [...]
