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Plant of the Day
Monday 21 September 2020
Great late season colour for an herbaceous border or tropical inspired planting scheme is provided by the large, wide-opening flowers of Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora 'Star of the East' (montbretia), with buds that are burnt orange and paler inner petals. This cormous perennial grows best in well drained soil with full sun.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Friday 17 July 2020
This narrow border had a great combination of midsummer flowering plants with the deep orange Crocosmia ‘Ellenbank Skylark’ (montbretia) blended with the purple of Allium sphaerocephalon (plums on sticks, round headed leek) and topped with the texture of the Stipa gigantea (golden oat grass).
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Tuesday 26 November 2019
The wiry stems of Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pringlei (white heath aster) are still spangled with flowers. The white star-like blooms provided a display contrasting with the upright stems Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' (feather reed-grass) and threading through the horizontal seed heads of Crocosmia.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Wednesday 21 August 2019
The landscaping of the Macallan Distillery, Speyside, Scotland, includes a living meadow roof over which the swallows were swooping and collecting insects. The new distillery was built in a designated Area of Great Landscape Value and so needed to be sympathetic to its environment. The roof is a complicated timber structure comprising of 1,800 single beams. As a factory, the roof above the production distillery did not require thermal insulation for building regulation compliance however insulation was provided to protect the living green roof from the warming and drying effects of the production below. The drama of the entrance walk is enhanced by the arching sprays of the intense, fiery red flowers of the herbaceous perennial Crocosmia 'Lucifer’ (montbretia).
Jill Raggett
Winter projects 1, somewhere to sit.
Winter projects 1, somewhere to sit.
Title photograph : driveway edge with my planter boxes foreground and the sitting area as it was when i first laid it out.
Winter projects….garden.
Introduction
December…WABI’” is ashore at Calstock boatyard and i’m back home getting some hard work done in the garden. In real time i’m actually working hard to finish the Leylandi removal job but very bad weather has brought that to a halt.
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Winter work : garden.
Winter work : garden.
Winter projects posts….the other stuff ( not boats that is !)
Blog real time….it’s early December and in real time i’m just taking a break from a 3 week project at home to get rid of a Leylandi ‘hedge’ planted by a former neighbour many years ago on the patch of unregistered land that she claimed to own ; and which borders our property and a council owned house behind us. I don’t know how long…
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Our Shirl Boxing up gloriously autumnal wedding bouquets ready for presentation to Christine and her Bridesmaids over at @ribbyweddings #weddingbouquets #bridalbouquets #bridalbouquet #weddingbouquet #sunflowers #mangocallas #rosehips #poppyseedheads #monbretia @dalyshirl #floristsatwork #florist (at Flower Design)
