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Tag Archives: specimen plants
Planting up the new garden 1
This is the blank canvas I had to play with a year ago, surely every gardener’s dream, lots of lovely rich soil just waiting to be planted! My brief to my garden designer had been that I would do the … Continue reading
Posted in Creating my garden, In my garden
Tagged English gardens, gardening, landscaping, Piet Oudolf, specimen plants, Wisley
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Celebrating Botanical Art & artists
Visited the Society of Botanical Artists’ (www.soc-botanical-artists.org) annual exhibition in Westminster today, what a treat. Over 700 works on display meaning that on entering the hall you left behind a dismal damp morning in central London and exchanged it for a … Continue reading
Posted in In my garden, Out of my garden
Tagged blossom, Botanical Art, coming home, gardening, specimen plants, spring day
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Transformation – days 2 & 3
Lots of progress made in two days, and what was most exciting was that the impact plants I’d selected were delivered. In the plan my designer had placed 5 plants at various intersections of the path, punctuation points so to … Continue reading
Posted in Creating my garden, In my garden
Tagged gardening, landscaping, specimen plants, transformation
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