Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2019 i Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Wildside, the garden of pioneering plantsman Keith Wiley, is the most exciting and innovative garden in Britain today. Designer, gardener and builder, Keith has created Wildside from the land by his own hand, carving pools and canyons to make spaces inspired by the natural landscape. Broadleaf trees with repeating forms, such as magnolias, apples and acers, thread parts of Wildside together underplanted with perennials, there are pine and birch trees on higher ground and lower, open areas with hummocky grasses punctuated with vibrant colour. Wildside takes its cue from the plant communities that Keith has visited worldwide and modified to make a garden, with energy and originality at the fore. At the cutting edge of design, gardens are becoming increasingly understated and less garden-like. In US architecture there is a…

SALVIA ‘WAVERLY ’ The purple-and-white tones of this salvia sit really well as the garden begins to wind down for winter. The gentle and somewhat soothing colouration of the flowers works very well with the unfolding autumn colours and textures. Salvias come into their own in our gardens in late summer, but like many, this one dislikes a frost. If you want it in your garden again next year, strike cuttings, protect them from frost, and make sure they get plenty of light until the end of May when they can be planted out into borders or containers. Height 1m. Origin Garden origin (species from Mexico and tropical Americas). Conditions Free-draining soil; full sun. Hardiness RHS H3, USDA 8a-10b† . Season of interest Midsummer until the frosts. ALSTROEMERIA INDIAN SUMMER…

First plant love The first plant I ever bought was a teasel, but the first plants I fell for were pelargoniums. I started collecting them as a teenager, and still love their timeless, proud elegance. Who has inspired your career? Joseph Atkin, head gardener at Aberglasney, ingrained a work ethic in me, which I carry forward to this day; he pushed me in the right direction, and encouraged me to study at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which was a life-changing experience. Horticultural heroes Norah Lindsay. She was active in the 1920s, the First World War was over, and in many ways it was the golden age of plants – aesthetically beautiful, new gardens, with their architectural structure and planting that looked as if it had always been there. Cliveden is…

What Small-flowered asters are herbaceous, clump-forming perennial members of the Asteraceae family. They are drawn from five species, all part of the largely American genus Symphyotrichum, (previously Aster). They are distinguished through their flower size and profusion of blooms, along with their bushy habit. Flowers are 12mm to 25mm across, nearly all with only one row of ‘petals’, and carried in generous sprays. Foliage varies, from narrow, lance-shaped to broad, heart-shaped leaves. Origins Native to the USA and southern Canada. Season The main flowering period is from early to mid-autumn. Size Height varies, from prostrate to 1.5m tall. Conditions Best in sun or light shade in reasonable garden soil. Hardiness Most have a hardiness rating of RHS H7, (tolerating temperatures to below –20ºC) and are suitable for gardens in USDA…

One of the most respected head gardeners working in Britain today, Tom Coward cut his teeth as Fergus Garrett’s deputy at Great Dixter in Sussex. For the past nine years he has headed the garden team at Gravetye Manor, once the home (now a hotel) of Victorian ‘wild garden’ exponent William Robinson. The garden is open only to paying guests, and Tom busies himself with creating pleasingly boisterous borders ( Crocosmia ‘Zeal Giant’ in full effect on my visit) and developing a highly productive kitchen garden that is harvested daily for the head chef. TOM HAS COMBINED A MODERN GROUNDING AS A GARDENER WITH AN UNCONVENTIONAL CAREER Tom draws me away from the post-lunch guests socialising by the lawn and up through the Azalea Bank towards the walled kitchen garden.…

Pressing flowers is always a surprise – you never know what’s going to work Melissa Richardson picks up a fallen cosmos bud in her south London garden, and pops it into a vase to prolong its life. Her love of flowers and their preservation is what led her, after 27 years of running a model agency, to start JamJar Flowers in 2009. “People were always sending flowers for the models and, since we didn’t have enough vases, they’d all sit about dying,” says Melissa. “That depressed me.” Her idea – to deliver seasonal bouquets in vases or jam jars (‘because that’s what we put our pickings in when we were kids”) – caught on and business flourished until, in 2014, a commission from Mulberry for a show invitation using pressed…

Hard-working herbs and vegetables are the focus of Anna Greenland’s small urban garden in Oxford. From the start, she pinpointed the plants she loved to eat and now, after a year, the garden is an extension of her kitchen. “It’s like having a little spice cabinet,” she explains. A keen advocate of Charles Dowding’s no-dig method, Anna filled the raised beds with well-rotted manure, building the soil up from the old lawn beneath. Wooden pallets and an old bathtub helped to increase the growing space and an unwanted door was repurposed to create a cold frame where she could bring on seedlings. Anna has lots of experience of growing edibles. She was head vegetable gardener at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxford, and the kitchen garden at Soho…

A BEAUTIFUL OBSESSION: JIMI BLAKE’S WORLD OF PLANTS AT HUNTING BROOK GARDENS by Jimi Blake and Noel Kingsbury Filbert Press, £25 ISBN 978-1999734527 The story of one man’s love affair with plants, this is a personal account of bold plant selection and creative gardening in a world that never stands still. Reviewer Benjamin William Pope is head gardener at Trotton Place. Most horticultural books fall into one of two categories: those full of technical information and those that are more sensitive, capturing the personal experiences individuals have with plants and gardens. In telling the story of plantsman Jimi Blake, this book does a little of both. On opening the book, readers are greeted with confident colours surrounding illustrations of bold foliage and a 1970s’ disco ball, a taste of what…

HOTBIN COMPOSTING The HOTBIN Mini awarded RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year 2019 enables 1-2 person households with smaller gardens to compost tidily and efficiently. Reaching hot-composting temperatures of 40–60°C, all cooked food and garden waste can be composted in 30–90 days.UK manufactured and 100% recyclable. 0808 168 8499 hotbincomposting.com BROLLIESGALORE Brolliesgalore has a unique collection of high-quality umbrellas, ranging from fun children’s umbrellas to exquisite handmade parasols from France. Popular this season are these stylish transparent dome umbrellas for those wet autumn days. Available in either autumnal or spring colours, these automatic umbrellas will keep you sheltered from the rain. brolliesgalore.co.uk BACKDOORSHOES Step out in style! Lightweight, waterproof, durable outdoor garden clogs featuring unique prints. Sizes from UK 3–14 with prices starting from £26.95 including free standard postage.…

Dracaena, the dragon plant, sits in the asparagus family, Asparagaceae. The genus comprises around 189 species mainly from tropical and subtropical African regions, with exceptions from Madagascar, Asia, northern Australia and parts of South America. Dracaena has strappy foliage and, unusually for a strap-leafed plant, elegant, woody stems that vary in size, which makes it particularly suitable for tight spots. If anyone asks me for advice on choosing a houseplant, I tend to point them towards the Dracaena genus, and in particular Dracaena marginata. It is a fantastic beginner plant for several reasons. First, it manages to fill a narrower spaces by staying incredibly slim. The stem is slender and graceful as it grows up and is complemented by a canopy of long, thin, deep-green leaves. An evergreen, tropical shrub,…

Tim Richardson Tim visits a garden in California, page 74. “It was great to visit this Ron Lutsko garden. He’s such an interesting designer – a plantsman, with a grounding in mid-century modernist style.” Helen Picton Helen, chooses some of the best small-flowered asters for autumn colour, page 44. “It’s incredible the late season beauty that can be created using small flowered asters in the garden.” Andrew Montgomery Andrew photographs JamJar’s pressed flowers, page 68. “Amy and Melissa create such beautiful pieces that you end up seeing ordinary garden flowers in a whole new light.”…

EXPERT EYE Although best known for his landscapes, John Nash was also an accomplished botanical artist, who illustrated the nursery catalogues of his friend the plantsman Clarence Elliott. This month you can see some of his illustrations, from the private collection of Martin Elliott, Clarence’s grandson, in an exhibition The Artist & The Plantsman at the Sam Wilson shop in Stow-on-the-Wold. It’s one of the highlights of Stow Arts Week with events across the Cotswold town. 28 September – 6 October. stowartweek.com Bright spark All summer Agapanthus Fireworks (= ‘Mdb001’) has been turning heads, coming a strong third in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year competition and wining Best New Plant at the HTA National Plant Show. The eye-catching agapanthus has exotic-looking, two-tone flowers that don’t fade…

Although best known for its spectacular open-air theatre, the Minack Theatre and Garden is home to a wonderful subtropical garden that is a dramatic attraction in itself. Full of exotic plants, many of them mature, the gardens showcase agaves, aeoniums, strelitzia and echiums across the clifftop site. Niall and Jill Milligan have orchestrated this planting scheme, so it displays many plants that most of us can only dream of cultivating in our own gardens. Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall TR19 6JU. Tel 01736 810181, minack.com The walled garden at Marks Hall is unusual in that it’s walled on only three sides, with one aspect sloping down to a lake. Formal hornbeam hedges divide a modern planting style, laid out in a series of spaces with a common thread and flavour throughout. Simple…

Worcestershire WR13 6QE. Tel 01684 540416, autumnasters.co.uk • Sussex Prairie Garden Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road, West Sussex BN5 9AT. Tel 01273 495902, sussexprairies.co.uk • Upton House and Gardens* Nr Banbury, Warwickshire OX15 6HT. Tel 01295 670266, nationaltrust.org *National Collection holders • Larch Cottage Nurseries Melkinthorpe, Penrith, Cumbria CA10 2DR. Tel 01931 712404, larchcottage.co.uk • Norwell Nurseries Woodhouse Road, Norwell, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG23 6JX. Tel 01636 636337, norwellnurseries.co.uk • Old Court Nurseries* Walwyn Road, Colwall, Malvern,…

ARABELLA LENNOX-BOYD Internationally renowned designer with more than 40 years experience 1 Dahlia ‘Edge of Joy’† A decorative dahlia with delightfully pale-pink flowers with a dark burgundy frill radiating from the yellow stamens. Ideal for planting in containers, or I like to surround it with Heuchera ‘Obsidian’ at the front of a border. Flowers (F) July – September. Height (H) 90cm. 2 Dahlia ‘Bishop of Auckland’ A most elegant, single-flowered dahlia, very prolific and adored by bees and butterflies. I plant it through Anemanthele lessoniana, Agapanthus ‘Midnight Star’ and Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Heavenly Blue’ as if in a meadow. One of the best of the Bishop Series. F July – September. H 1m. 3 Dahlia ‘Fairway Spur’ Bronze with a suffusion of pink, peach and mango, its petals are gently…

This month’s includes insights into one man’s life as a florist, a writer’s relationship with nature and a poet’s passion for plants. THE FLOWER MARKET YEAR by Simon Lycett Simon J Lycett Ltd, £30 ISBN 978-1916091207 A year as seen through florist Simon Lycett’s regular visits to Covent Garden Market, highlighting seasonal blooms along with step-by-step projects. GARDENS FOR GLORIANA by Jane Whitaker Bloomsbury, £20 ISBN 978-1788311199 An account of England’s finest Elizabethan gardens – symbols of power and courtly magnificence, conveying a sense of cultured worldliness. EMILY DICKINSON’S GARDENING LIFE by Marta McDowell Timber Press, £18.99 ISBN 978-1604698220 Well-loved as a literary figure, Emily Dickinson was also an avid gardener, her passion for plants explored in this insightful book. TURNING THE BOAT FOR HOME by Richard Mabey Chatto &…

James Basson James lives in the South of France where he runs Scape Design with his wife Helen, specialising in low-maintenance and dry gardens. He is a fervent advocate for creating sustainable landscapes. The winner of four Chelsea Gold medals, he was awarded Best in Show in 2017. Fergus Garrett Fergus was appointed head gardener at Great Dixter by Christopher Lloyd in 1993. He is passionate about passing on his knowledge through student programmes at Dixter and worldwide lectures. He was awarded an RHS Associate of Honour in 2008 and an RHS Victoria Medal of Honour in 2019. Anna Pavord Anna’s books include her bestseller The Tulip and most recently Landskipping. For 30 years she was The Independent’s gardening correspondent. In 2000 the RHS awarded her the Veitch Memorial Medal.…

The unspoilt Pelion peninsula lies between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea. The slopes of Mount Pelion (1,624m) are a botanically rich wilderness, a mix of Mediterranean and Balkan species that descend to pristine beaches. Rainfall here is relatively high, the hills forested by oak, chestnut, fir and beech trees. Many of the picturesque mountain villages with their ancient plane trees and arched bridges, thrive while others lie abandoned, but it’s an atmospheric region drenched in tradition. The splendid, limestone Mount Olympus rises to 2,919m just 18km from the coast, and offers wonderful botanising at a wide variety of elevations, depending on when you visit. It can be accessed from Litochoro, which lies at the foot of the Enipeus Gorge, a wonderful woodland location for plant hunting. Inspiration for…

Recommended dahlia suppliers Halls of Heddon West Heddon Nursery, Heddon on the Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne NE15 0JS. Tel 01661 852445, hallsofheddon.com J Parkers 16 Hadfield Street, Stretford, Manchester M16 9FG. Tel 0161 848 1100, jparkers.co.uk National Dahlia Collection Varfell Lane, Longrock, Penzance, Cornwall TR20 8AQ. Tel 07525 867976, nationaldahliacollection.co.uk Peter Nyssen 124 Flixton Road, Urmston, Manchester M41 5BG. Tel 0161 747 4000, peternyssen.com Sarah Raven 1 Woodstock Court, Blenheim Road, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 4AN. Tel 0345 092 0283, sarahraven.com…

Forget the fence. If possible, delimit the boundaries and let the garden bleed into its surroundings so it appears to be a seamless whole. Subtle definition. Nearer the house, a garden space can be indicated by means of a change of level, low walls or the use of shrubs to form a putative boundary or ‘edge’. ‘Native’ is not everything. Intensify the plantings near the house, and if necessary beyond, by means of non-native plants as well as native plants. Forget about flower colour; it’s all about the general tone and feel of the plants. Allow and encourage colonisation of some areas by native plants – even if they are ‘weeds’ or seem weed-like. They may need managing, but if they thrive, they will appear authentic.…

Melbourne Arts Precinct Nigel Dunnett and James Hitchmough from the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield have been appointed planting designers for Melbourne’s new Arts Precinct, which will house one of the highest concentrations of arts, cultural and creative organisations in the world. Working with international design practice HASSELL and New York-based design firm SO–IL, their proposal will create a matrix of sustainable, minimal water-use plantings across 18,000 square metres of gardens, pedestrian spaces and an elevated park, linking the various arts spaces in the city’s Southbank area.…

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1 WATERPERRY GARDENS Enjoy a visit to Waterperry’s Ornamental Gardens, see our famous herbaceous border take centre stage when the Michaelmas daisies create a late flourish, and the beautiful autumn colours lead us into walks along the riverside. A place to explore, relax and shop in beautiful surroundings all year round. Near Wheatley, Oxfordshire OX33 1LA | 01844 339226 | waterperrygardens.co.uk 2 CHARTWELL Once used to grow the produce that fed Winston Churchill and his family, you can now see root vegetables in the Walled Garden harvested for dishes in the Landemare café. You can’t miss the pumpkins and squash suspended from the ground or the apple trees bearing fruit in the Orchard. Westerham, Kent TN16 1PS | 01732 868381 | nationaltrust.org.uk/chartwell 3 EMMETTS GARDEN This Edwardian…