by GillianPolley | Feb 15, 2013 | Acer griseum, berries, bulbs, clematis, cyclamen, Edinburgh, February, garden design, Hamamelis, holly, Plants, scent, shrubs, Spring, trees, Viburnums, winter colour
I have been working this week on a planting plan for a driveway and front garden. The client has asked for evergreen structure with year round interest and colour and I have used a number of the shrubs and plants I have written about, starting with my first...
by GillianPolley | Nov 23, 2012 | Garden Museum London, herbaceous perennials, High Line New York, Norfolk, Pensthorpe Wildlife and Gardens, Piet Oudolf, Plants
Meeting your Idols can be tricky, will they live up to your expectations, or will they have feet of clay? Last month, I went to a lecture at the Garden Museum in London, the topic was the High Line in New York. Amongst others, speaking for the first time in the UK...
by GillianPolley | Nov 5, 2012 | bulbs, Green house, herbaceous perennials, Jobs to do in the garden, Plants, Spring
On good days outside keep going on the autumn tidy up of the garden and cutting back of herbaceous plants. Leave ornamental grasses uncut until spring to give winter interest in the garden and at the same time provide over wintering insects with protection. November...
by GillianPolley | Mar 18, 2012 | Daphne bholua, Plants, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Spring
This week I paid a visit to an old friend at the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. I go every year in early spring and every year I am never disappointed. The old friend is a lovely specimen shrub of Daphne bholua and at this time of year it is smothered with small...
