This is my second design for this front terraced garden. This first was too wild. The owner enjoys the contrasting textures and colors the succulents provide this entry garden.
Aeonium 'Cyclops' with Agave 'Blue Glow'
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In A Vase On Monday - It's All About the Base - Many thanks to the dedicated and talented Cathy from Rambling in the Garden, host of In a Vase on Monday. Do click here to see what others are plunking in ...
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Edibles, outdoor living, and more at Sunset Gardens at Cornerstone Sonoma - While touring the Cornerstone Sonoma gardens in Sonoma, California, a couple of weeks ago, I enjoyed a two-fer. Sunset’s Test Gardens relocated to Corner...5 hours ago
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Prosilio, 2017 - Yesterday the whole of the left side of the house shook with a large noise. Needless to say it was an earthquake. In all the 24 years I have been...1 day ago
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HATFIELD – AIRBRUSHED OUT……. - No, I didn’t get out of bed the wrong side this morning, and I’m not usually this grumpy, but the gardens of Hatfield House have turned out to be a great...4 days ago
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Thank you Edward - Yesterday I had to thank Edward for a great summer, he has gone on to work in Her Majesty’s tax office, that is what he has a first class degree in. I have...4 days ago
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August Harvest, Containers and Announcing My New Book in the Works - Containers on the deck have been rearranged, something I like to do in mid-summer as some containers begin to fade. Always on the lookout for odd combinat...
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Flowers in the Fish Factory - On a recent holiday to Sweden, we were lucky enough to stay in a unique bed and breakfast at Edshultshall on Western Sweden’s wild coast. Ladfabriken (as t...
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A Good Year for Fennel - The fennel in the kitchen garden has been especially good this year, large, rounded bulbs that never bolted, tender and sweetly anise-flavored. Perhaps our...4 weeks ago
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Top picks at RHS Hampton Court 2017 - The exhibit that really caught my eye at this year's RHS Hampton Court Flower Show was "The Charleston Garden" (above) - one of three very different 'pott...
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A New Film from Sissinghurst - Film making is a slow process but here, at last, is our second Sissinghurst film. This time it’s about the wonderful collection of irises we have in the ga...3 months ago
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Sowing Annual Flowers. Late April Update. - The seed selling season has peaked…normality is returning to Higgledy Towers…well….our own special version of normality. The first four months is when I do...3 months ago
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Cherry Tree Arboretum - *Magnolia* 'Shirazz'On Saturday Alastair and I went to Cherry Tree Arboretum on the Shropshire/Cheshire border near Woore. This is the private collection ...
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Winter Finery – Bright Spots on Dull Days - We love the soft light of winter and how it shows almost everything to advantage. In the shot above, conifers, yucca and the lingering leaves of a mix of d...7 months ago
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Journal: Conquering Table Mountain - The impressive cliffs of Table Mountain rise above Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, with Skeleton Gorge on the left Photos - Kirsten Honeyman, unless indicat...
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The Unexpected Garden Tour - I love finding the unexpected. Last summer in 2015, I went on the Snohomish Garden Tour in the historic district. I was pleasantly surprised to find so...
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A new garden in a new(ish) house. - Landscaping needs to be done with an eye to the future! I have just finished a design for a client for his 2 year old house and we are excited about how mu...
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Family and……. - A little while since I have visited this blog. At present not in a good place after four months of caring for my Mother after she was diagnosed with lung c...1 year ago
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Mud to meadow in (not) many months - I was asked to make a meadow that wouldn’t require regular mowing/maintenance, so my client could enjoy his weekends away rather than spend most of his t...3 years ago
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