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.