Together with my client we planted-up all the borders back in November 2019. Now this mature Letchworth garden has really put its stride on.. what with the endless rain early spring and intense heat in May ~ the perennials are all a bit ahead of schedule.

The Geum ‘Mrs J Bradshaw’ really are the stars of the show in the ‘hot border’ at the moment. Whilst the ferns and hostas in the retreat garden are magnificant in a completely different way.

I do love designing planting schemes for diversity and this garden has plenty of it ~ a majestic lawn flanked by curving pathway and borders which lead to a retreat garden with onlooking Buddha.

I took these photos 6 months after planting-up, on a very sunny early June day ~ hard to believe that this garden was planted-up on a cool November day, with saturated clay borders, that we were working hard to get the plants settled into.

Achillea millefolium ‘Terracotta’

Digitalis ‘Illumination Pink’

Dryopteris erythrosora

Dryopteris erythrosora two

Geranium clarkei ‘Kashmir White’

Hakonechloa mac. Alboaurea

Hosta ‘Bressingham Blue’

Light beneath the apple trees

Lupinus ‘Gallery Red’

Salvia ‘Black n Blue’ with Geum ‘Mrs Bradshaw’

Through the Geum ‘Mrs Bradshaw’

Uncinia rubra

Plants know exactly what to do and how to do it!

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Happy gardening!