"DaveDay34" wrote in message
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Hi all

I am a parks manager and want to develop some new flowerbeds using the
'new'
perennial style. I have a reasonable idea what plants I would be looking
for
but was looking for some images so I can show people what I'm on about. I
have John Brookes' The New Garden but it has few photos of the kind I'm
looking for (his are too 'natural' - I'm thinking of informal drifts of
single species, mixing herbaceous and grasses...). Checked Oehme & van
Sweden's company website but that didn't have anything suitable either.
Has
anyone got any pointers?

I'm also preparing myself for thread to develop into challenging my plans
in
principle! (what would you like to see in parks?)

Ta

Michael S

Hi Michael,

I think you may try looking for books by Tim Smit. He's the guy who got
the
impetus to reclaim the Lost Gardens of Helligan and The Eden Project. I
seem
to remember from my time at Capel that he had at least one book which
featured
some dramatic drift planting in parks and other public spaces. You might
find
something on the web. If you don't have any luck, please feel free to
mail me
direct and I'll ask around at Capel and elsewhere and see if I can help
out.

Just out of interest, where are you based/working?

I hope this helps.

Dave.


Thanks for recommendation Dave...will have a browse. I work in Coleraine in
Northern Ireland, and before that was with Manchester City Council...

As a bit of a plug, we won our category in Ulster in Bllom this year and on
that basis have been enetered into Britain in Bloom 2003. The staff here
have maintained a great standard of horticulture - what parks in England
would have been like before the impact of competituve tendering and budget
cuts. Hope to beef up our website soon to tempt you all to visit!

Michael S