This has been the busiest season ever for our design business meaning that seven day work weeks have kept me hopping.
Here’s the garden this week. It’s a riot of foliage colour, depth and layering. I could spend hours just staring at it, if there was but time. This is a predicament that’s sort of crazy: have a great garden and ignore it. But it also shows that a garden beautifully planted and carefully thought out can get along quite nicely on its own. I never know whether to be chastised or grateful. Both I suspect.
The variegated dogwoods look particularly good:
Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ in the background and Cornus ‘Samaritan closer to the house. Both superb plants which I’d been a little nervous about putting so close together. Never mind. It does work because that great looming viburnum keeps them apart.
Here’s one of the videos we did for the Globe a few weeks ago. Today we’re shooting another four and i’ll put them on here when things are ready.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/gardening-basics/video-everything-you-need-to-know-about-preparing-plant-containers-for-summer/article2433924/?view=life
Now that things have calmed down in the garden renovating world, I’ll try to do this more often. There are so many plants I would like you to see. The Globe has Plant of the Week on a sporadic basis. I have to keep checking too.
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