Category: Planting combinations

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

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

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

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

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”