Week ending 20 Sept. I love these cool colours at the shady end of the Catio. Ferns, impatiens, marbled leaves. A complete opposite to the bright, vivid colours at the sunny end.
week ending 13 Sept. Our front garden looks great right now, with contrasting foliage plants front and centre. Here is ricinis and melianthus major, with miscanthus zebrinus in the background.
Week ending 13 Sept. I love the garden at this time of year. Copper miscanthus and willowy salvia uliginosa and bidens Hannay's Lemon Drops
Week ending 6 Sept. In the shadiest border, fuchsia Hawkshead is arching gracefully over fatsia Spiders Web. Magic.
Week ending 30 August. All the lilacs and pinks in Yvonne's garden, so rich! Purple vernonia crinita is a must!
Week ending 23 August. How delicious is this combination, seen at Great Dixter. Canna Tropicana and ipomoea Spanish Flag
Week ending 16 August. Perfect planting for drought, a sea of grasses at Regents Park café with asters and rudbeckias, perfectly happy.
Week ending 9 August. This is my favourite time of year in the garden, with all these vibrant colours!
Week ending 2 Aug. Flowers are so ephemeral but foliage lasts all season long and knits together all the colours in the border. See here the different leaf shapes, colours and textures. Magic!
Week ending 26 July 2026. I've been waiting all summer for this combo. Rudbeckia Prairie Glow and Salvia Animo
Week ending 19 July 2026. Now this is the absolute best combination ever! East Ruston Old Vicarage certainly knows how to turn it on.
Week ending 12 July. I love all these perennials mingling together at the front if the hot border.
Week ending 5th July. I've finally got these two to flower simultaneously, after two years. The kniphofia is Rasta Rufa and the salvia is Animo, baby sister of Amistad.
Week ending 28 June 2026. I'm going all meadowy!
Week ending 21 June. Lovely peachy roses, all shades from wine to cream tones. Delicious!
Week ending June 14. No apologies for yet more yellow. Here, outside Kenwood Bookshop, is lychnis with alchemilla mollis and grey stachys. Magic!
Week ending 7 June. Can't get enough of this chartreuse yellow, here with perfect pale blue geranium as complement
Week ending 31 May. I just love the tapestry effect my ground cover of heuchera, pulmonaria, brunnera and astrantia creates.
week ending 24 May. This wonderful combination of yellow rose and purple clematis is right up my street!
Week ending 17 May. Our central border is full of different foliage colours and textures; fresh new spring growth is so lush.
Week ending 10 May. My favourite colours! This classic peony and ever flowering Erysimum Bowles Mauve are like jewels in my neighbours' garden.
Week ending 3 May. Now there's a combo that would usually make me cringe, but somehow with rhodos and azaleas it just ... works!
Week ending 26 April 2026. I love the accidental combination of this cercis canadensis and the flaming acer behind. Furzey Gardens, Hampshire.
Week ending 19 April 2026. Love the citrus colours of these azaleas at Kenwood. Really zingy!
Week ending 12 April. A subtle one, the pale pink camellia, acid green foliage and white vinca, all against the whitewashed wall is just delightful, in Gerald's garden.
Week ending 5th April. What could be more Spring like than brunnera, the perennial forget-me-not, and cowslips?
Week ending 29 March 2026. The new rosy foliage on this acer amongst all the greenery really sings! Penny & Paul's garden
Week ending 22 March. The bluest of blue hyacinths with yellow and orange narcissi just sing to me. And the fragrance, well, its delicious.
Week ending 15th March. This week's Winning Combination is berberis thunbergiii Pink Queen and spiraea Pink Ice with cool, variegated trachylospermum jasminoides.