My garden has a number of plantings that are of exceptional beauty as
I write. The details may interest the urgling community.

First, a rather scatter brained, sunny, double-sided border that
features lots of seed-grown "species" peonies (now over) and big
spuria irises (not in flower yet). Right now, one side of this border
has in flower:

Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'
Tulipa sprengeri in brilliant red
Papaver atlanticum 'Flore Pleno' in soft orange
Homeria collina, in soft orange and yellow

plus lots of green foliage.


Second, a small bed at the SE corner of my house, on the S side, a
very sheltered location. Under a large Cytisus batandierii (not yet in
flower) is a tangle of Convolvulus cneorum and Teurcrium fruticans.
That little dusty pink convolvulus with much-cut foliage weaves in and
out of the tangle -- not yet in flower, only leaves right now. In the
foreground is a patch of Scilla litardieri (and one S. peruviana),
with contrast provided by a small patch of the yellow Homeria collina.
Nearby are clumps of Elymus magellanica, the blue foliage of which
echoes the foliage & flowers of the teucrium, the foliage of the
convolvuluses, and the flowers of the scillas.

I'm not sure that the S. peruviana isn't a jarring note, but the
jury's still out on it.


Third, a large border containing another tangle, this one of the
double white form of Rosa banksia and Clematis montana wilsonii and C.
m. odorata. The roses 'Goldfinch' and 'Buff Beauty' are just starting
to show some color in their buds.


I won't claim credit for any of these plantings. Like everything else
in my garden, they are fortuitously handsome juxtapositions of plants
that "just happened."

But they give me intense pleasure, as well as some surprise: *I*
created that?


--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, BC, Canada
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