Thursday 1 October 2015

RHS Wisley, October 1st

I love late season perennials, and one the best places to see them is at RHS Wisley Gardens in Surrey.

A past client who recently moved house with fabulous open views of the countryside, has asked me to help create swathes of prairie planting in her natural garden setting. I took her to Wisley to see the Piet Oudolf borders in particular, but of course other parts of the garden were still looking glorious again the blue skies today. Looking forward to planning her garden, and watch it develop.

The famous long herbaceous borders still looking very colourful

blue Geranium Rozanne still flowering its socks off! Fabulous plant.

Interesting sculputre in the circular lawn. They strips are done by eye using an old
fashioned rotary mower with a narrow blade. Fabulous.

The Piet Oudolf  borders planted in swathes using grasses and
perennials, repeated across the borders. Many of these plants and grasses are 1m-1.50 tall.

Simple is often best.  A hornbream hedge with Miscanthus grasses

Tom Stuart Smith borders, with Phlomis seed heads edging the paths.

Tom Stuart Smith borders

The edge of the lake.

The formal Waterlily pond

Colourful cyclamen thriving around the base of this Oak Tree

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