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Beautiful Plantings in the Colonies
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 to send email, change atlantic to pacific and invalid to net |
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