planting – Guy's Garden

June 2021: New flowering plants

Here’s an update of the major changes/developments in the garden during June. We planted up the final bed in the new herbaceous border – a project we started in March – as well as finish planting into the long border which sits next to the walled area. The cultivar of Persicaria which I talk about towards the end of the

22/09/2020 ferns / flowering plants / foliage / plant design / tree planting / trees

August 2020: New planting beds

As I mentioned in last months post, we now have 4 new planting beds at our disposal and this month we planted into 2 of these new spaces. For both beds we included shrubs for height and structure, as well as mid height and ground covering plants. We selected plants for their contrasting/complimentary foliage colours and textures and also thought

21/04/2020 ferns / grasses / hostas / pear tree / silver birch / tree planting / trees

March 2020: Spring planting

In last month’s post I talked about how we prepared a large new planting bed. In March we planted 2 trees into this space and they’ve instantly provided height and impact. Since we’ve already planted 3 multi stem silver birch in the garden (Betula utilis var. jacquemontii), we thought it would be effective to plant a single stem cultivar called

05/11/2019 Autumn colours / climbing plants / dry stone wall / ferns / flowering plants / fungi / garden visits / spring

September & October 2019: Late summer flowers and planting for spring 2020

In September I began studying a RHS horticultural qualification at Merrist Wood college – here’s a link to my programme. We visited Wisley and particularly enjoyed the tropical garden; I really liked the contrasting foliage textures and colour combinations. I was particularly pleased with Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen‘ which we planted into the back of the mixed border in spring- the

29/07/2018 gardening / growing plants / mixed border

June 2018: Flowering plants, new beds and dry stone walling

It seemed that lots of the plants burst into flower in early June – here are some of the highlights: We visited my grandparents in the last weekend in May and divided up their hostas for our garden. We made a display in pots with half of them and the rest were planted out into the mixed border. We thought

01/07/2018 climbing plants / evergreen plants / gardening / growing plants / pergola walkway

May 2018: Extending the mixed border, new beds and planting climbers

One of the first things we did this month was visit ‘Isabella Plantation‘ in Richmond Park. I highly recommend this place – its totally magical. It feels like a secluded woodland and is dominated by huge rhododendrons and Azaleas – It’s so colourful at this time of year. My favourite part was the stream that runs through it, it’s bordered