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Category: Flowering Perennials
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Great Plants for Winter Structure
Flowering Perennials, Ornament Grasses
Now is probably the perfect time to think about plants that provide structure and interest in our gardens during the dark and chilly days of winter. With the cold wintry nights we have actually had some wonderful sunny days over the last few weeks, so there has been plenty of opportunity to walk around the…
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Creating a Buzz
Flowering Perennials
Walking in the garden early this morning I was amazed by just how many bees there were already busy working away in the garden. As always they were attracted to the single flowers and it didnt seem to matter whether these plants were shrubs, perennials, natives or exotics; if they were flowering and had the…
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Some Wow Factor Perennials
Flowering Perennials, Ornament Grasses
This is the time of year when so many of the gorgeous flowering perennials really come into their own. When planted in a border together with a framework of grasses their sometimes strong and vivid, or sometimes soft and subtle, flowers are beloved by gardeners and insects alike. Walking in our growing field this morning…
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Planting our New Style Meadow
Flowering Perennials, Garden, Ornament Grasses
Even though we have not had significant rain for a little while and our gardens sandy soil is getting increasingly dry our team, consisting of myself, Luke our gardener, and a group of our Foundation volunteers successfully planted our New Meadow over 2 days on the 10th and 11th of July. Using the term ‘meadow’…
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Grasses for sunbaked and dry
Flowering Perennials, Garden, Ornament Grasses
There are so many grasses that are very happy in sunny open conditions in average to dry soils, but there are also those that revel in hot and dry conditions and that really do give of their best by way of foliage colour or flower when conditions are driest. They can thrive when other less…
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When to cut back your borders
Flowering Perennials, How to, Info, Ornament Grasses
Dont do it……..at least not yet!! Not too long ago the tradition was to cut back our borders in the autumn – to ‘tidy’ them for winter. This may seem rather odd to us now, but of course when borders were based largely on flowers and not so much on shape and form and longevity…
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Molinia Poul Petersen
Flowering Perennials, Ornament Grasses
This wonderful form of our native purple moor grass, Molinia Poul Petersen, is amongst the very best selections of one of our native grasses that work so well as an ornamental grass in our gardens. As you can see from this picture taken only a few days ago the simple use of several plants together to…
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