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| Photo credit: Joe Valentine |
Last summer Joe Valentine from Juniper Hill, and his wife Paula Hunter, asked me design a small border. They have a gorgeous garden and are already incredibly accomplished gardeners, so I wasn't sure what I could possibly offer. Joe said he wanted an exuberant border, packed with interesting plants and full of late season flowers. I drew up a design and sent a plant list; it was a go. The above photo is of the garden space dug over and prepped by Joe and Paula.
On a hot and humid day in June I laid out the plants and planted.
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| Photo Credit: Joe Valentine |
After I planted, I didn't see the garden again until October.
I like the foreground/background pictured here. The view is framed in coppery-red, with the Acer and Syringa 'Tinkerbell' on the left and red crab apple dots on the right. In the middle is a lively green Miscanthus and a topiaried Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'. In the foreground is purple Verbena with Zinna Bearny's Giant Lime, Bronze fennel in full flower, and the white flowers of Boltonia asteroides 'Snowbank.' The beautiful design and structure of the larger garden offers contrast in scale, style and from to the intricacy and wildness of the perennial and annual planting.
One of my favorite Dalhia's, 'Karma Prosero'- a mellow light pink for this time of year, but on very dark, erect stems. Here the Tagetes 'Cinnabar' weaves through.
The Tagetes all leaned over the wall towards the sun, and luckily the rocks helped prop up and show off its wandering habit.
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| Photo credit: Joe Valentine |
And presently, the garden in winter.
Helen, we are having so much fun with our new border and can't wait to see it in its second year! Thanks for this post and thank you for bringing a little slice of Dixter to our gardens here!
ReplyDeleteHi Joe! Thanks for the chance to work in your beautiful garden- it has been great and I look forward to spring!!
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