Confession - I'm a prepper
I've had it with winter, so I'm prepping. Nope, not in a bonkers Q-Anon way, more gardener style: mug of coffee, pile of seed catalogues and as always, Lyra (our Irish Doodle) by my side. This is about seed and form...
FORM - good bone structure makes the garden
Now is the time to study the bone structure of the garden - the shape and balance of the plant forms - trees, shrubs, grasses against benches, walls, fruit cages, sheds etc. There is balance and comfort in lines. Working in garden design I find it easy to find the flow of a garden's form. To help you start to 'see form' is to take a photo of your garden, switch it to black and white and you'll see the gaps and irregularities that could be aligned by the addition of a small tree or shrub shaped to work with your space.
SEEDS - a vice to embrace
I know these to work to my dream-rich-time-poor gardening style - easy to grow, flower this year and colours all purples to blues to pinks to whites:
- Cleome hassleriana Violet Queen and White Queen
- Delphinium consolida, Exquisite Series
- Leonurus sibiricus
- Cosmos bipinnatus Purity and Picote
- Gaura lindheimeri Cool Breeze
- Cerinthe major var. purpurascens
- Ammi visnaga Casablanca