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Category: Planting combinations

August pleasures

Categories Planting combinations — Posted on August 4, 2012May 25, 2023

Drought-tolerant late-blooming perennials, like Perovskia and Eryngium make a great pairing for the late summer garden.   … Read More

Winter colour feast

Categories Planting combinations, Winter garden — Posted on February 18, 2012May 25, 2023

I’m increasingly impressed by the value of evergreens in the garden, particularly when our winter (off-) season lasts four months! Here, both the gold foliage of the Thuja occidentalis and the red stems of the Cornus are enhanced by their association.   … Read More

Alchemilla mollis with potentilla

Categories Planting combinations — Posted on July 22, 2011May 25, 2023

The trio of an Abottswood potentilla, alchemilla mollis and white bleeding heart makes a quiet corner in the late spring, early summer garden. The similarity between the emerging alchemilla leaves and the palmate potentilla leaf are a surprise and add to the interest of the grouping.   … Read More

Japanese maple Bloodgood in May

Categories Planting combinations — Posted on July 22, 2011May 25, 2023

The enduring pleasure of underplanting Japanese maple with hostas derives from the contrasting foliage — it might be considered the textbook example, juxtaposing deeply-cut, red foliage with large, rounded, green, blue-green, or variagated leaves. The corrugated texture of some hosa leaves is another reason to linger over this pairing.   … Read More

rhododendron in June

Categories Planting combinations — Posted on July 21, 2011May 25, 2023

Cow parsley and blue columbines help to integrate the mass of the rhododendron with the surrounding border. All three thrive on the north side of the house.   … Read More

favourite plants

Categories Planting combinations — Posted on June 10, 2010May 25, 2023

One shrub that I am currently enjoying a great deal in my own garden is a white Potentilla “Abbotswood.” I know that potentilla’s aren’t very highly regarded in the garden media today, but I think that this is due to change. There have been some new developments with a variety of new colours and this … Continue reading “favourite plants”

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