For a few months each year I feel my garden is very romantic. I think abundance is romantic. I have not one white bark birch but ten. Not three or five plants of ox-eye daisies but 25 (so cheap and easy from seed). I really lovee that I can pick big bunches without the garden looking depleted.
Still looking for that floaty dress.
Still looking for that floaty dress.
Nature gives me this romantic effect for free, every year, with wild orchids thrown in too!
My winter garden however, is not romantic. It looks like mud season here just now!
I used to advise clients and students to plant something special for winter interest at the far end of the garden, something to coax the gardener out on a winter day. Soemthing so beutiaul and exquisitely scented that made it worth the effort.
It is time to take my own advice. I am on the look out for witch hazel, daphne, sarcoccoca, viburnum, winter flowering honeysuckle....suggestions welcome.
We visiteed Anglesey Abbey winter garden on a still day and were intoxicated by the colours and the scents! See here.
Anyone else feeling romantic? What feels romantic to you?
I used to advise clients and students to plant something special for winter interest at the far end of the garden, something to coax the gardener out on a winter day. Soemthing so beutiaul and exquisitely scented that made it worth the effort.
It is time to take my own advice. I am on the look out for witch hazel, daphne, sarcoccoca, viburnum, winter flowering honeysuckle....suggestions welcome.
We visiteed Anglesey Abbey winter garden on a still day and were intoxicated by the colours and the scents! See here.
Anyone else feeling romantic? What feels romantic to you?
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