greencube garden and landscape design, UK

greencube's ornamental grass and perennial  border  Here in my own garden, I took time out on Friday evening after mowing the lawn to take some photos, the sun was low and the light was soft.  The front window of the studio looks out onto this border. This is the border that sweeps around the drive now in its third year, the structural layer consists of Buxus cubes and Euphobia wulfennii with large swathes of Calamagrostis  'Karl Foerster', Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus' mixed with a tapestry of perennials and bulbs planted en-masse. Our soil is incredibly sandy and so drought tolerant plants are used but I do feed and mulch with mushroom and green compost with added fertiliser every year to give the plants their best shot. Here is Papaver 'Patsy's Plum' which I sowed from seed, now doing incredibly well. New in the border this year seems to be a favourite at Chelsea also. Its a new plant called Lysimachia atropu...

I have been very busy this week finishing a design for a garden in Sevenoaks, I started a front garden design in Oxted, a survey in Tunbridge Wells as well as planting a garden in Sevenoaks (thankfully I had two helpers for the planting job and they both did a brilliant job) and so today has been a day of pottering in my own garden, plenty of cups of tea and recharging before next weeks work. Including cleaning my greenhouse, recycling 1000's of empty pots to a local nursery who welcomes them with open arms and harvesting the last of my courgettes and chillies. I have just placed an order for bulbs, 3000 of them in total to be planted out over the next couple of weeks in four of the new gardens built this year. I have chosen a miniature daffodil Tete-aTete, some Alliums (Varities) Sensation and Nigrum), Tulipa Ballerina, Tulipa Lilac Time.