The Country Garden
This garden was started in 2007. In the wooded area snowdrops and hellebores begin the gardening year in February and then on to the early spring ephemerals. The long border comes into its own in April and continues to its fiery crescendo in late October. Keeping the borders always in flower with good combinations of plants and shrubs is a must have. A garden should look beautiful at all times of the year and in every season.
Evergreens are very important in creating a landscape that looks lush and well furnished particularly in winter. A garden begins with good bones.
Berberis "Helmonds Pillar" were used as exclamation points in the border to create structure and rhythm. Phlox David, red hardy hibiscus and zinnias are used as froth and fill.
The dark leaves of a sand cherry looks dramatic against a variegated cornus elegantissima dogwood.
Yarrow gold plate.
A section of the woodland garden with hellebore foetidus as ground cover. Daffodil Ice follies.
The button like flowers of tansy and the flat heads of yarrow add texture to a mixture of shrubs and grasses.
Early pulmonaria "royal ensign" compliments the charming yellow cowslips.
Tall orange heleniums and purple verbena bonariensis mingle with the dark leaves of canna.
Allium purple sensation with cespitosa grasses.
The great ghostly thistle, Onopordum.
Red poppies from seed.
House and garden.
Autumn in the border.
Hoar frost.
In winter seed heads are left to decorate the garden along with grasses.