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Plant of the Day
Saturday 23 December 2023
At Gordon Castle, Scotland, these pillars of Fagus sylvatica Atropurpurea Group (copper beech, purple beech) add height and structure to the 100m long central borders. The designer Arne Maynard surrounded the topiary tree pillars with herbaceous plants in a soft colour palette with flowers and foliage of blue, purple and white with touches of yellow and apricot.
Jill Raggett
Landscape in Cheshire
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'Summer makes a silence after spring.' Vita Sackville-West ..
Pathway through Merton Borders at the Oxford Botanic Garden. The herbaceous borders here are the oldest in England.
Herbaceous borders Gresgarth Hall
Savill Garden: Herbaceous Borders
I spent Tuesday in the herbaceous borders with gardener Kate and got to deadhead to my heart's content. Dahlias, cannas, calendula, alstroemeria, tithonia, kniphofia, salvia, and hemerocallis, oh yes!
The dahlias were a delight - so many cultivars of robust, unstaked plants. Kate explained that they're dug up in October and put on trays inside to dry out. They're then potted up when spring rolls around in March/April, and finally planted out in May. Though my former dahlia knowledge was by no means extensive, I was impressed. I'm used to having to stake them up, and with my clumsy tendencies, it often involved me breaking a bunch of buds off in the process. This time was better. While the dahlias weren't staked, near everything else in the borders had been. Pea-staked beautifully with birches were asters and achilleas, heleniums and helianthus - all perky and full, unlike the flopping stems in my garden. I wish I could be here for an entire year to be part of the process: going out in the woods for a week in late winter to cut the young birches, and then taking two full weeks in early spring to stake everything in the four huge beds.
The Latest Pictures of The Herbaceous Borders at The Beginning of April
The Latest Pictures of The Herbaceous Borders at The Beginning of April
The lush borders are really starting to fill-up now and the Tulips are beginning to burst open.
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