6 of my favourite roses – pinks, yellows, oranges
Monday, 23 June 2014
by caroline
Whenever I talk to a client about their plants and planting plan I always do my best to get them to buy in to the idea of having some roses. I think the recent trend has been to ignore them a bit in planting plans and I’m not sure why. They just don’t seem to
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, The New Vintage Garden
Ordered chaos? Shabby chic? New Vintage? Just love it
Monday, 23 June 2014
by caroline
I was trying to describe to someone exactly what I meant by New Vintage the other day and I was left a bit speechless as there was too much to say.. Is it soft pinks with deep romantic reds? Is it ordered chaos or shabby chic? Is it natural over ordered? Is it roses instead
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, The New Vintage Garden
New Vintage gardens like a puddle
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
by caroline
“There is no concept of diversity of habitats for wildlife, of puddles for swallows to get mud from to make their nests with. The shabby charm that once pervaded English country gardens has been lost to horticultural Brazilians”. “Native trees are replaced with garden-centre specimens – preferably gold, variegated and purple-leaved – all shaped into
- Published in The New Vintage Garden, Uncategorized
Les Jardins Agapanthe
Monday, 16 June 2014
by caroline
In the words of the owner and designer of Les Jardins Agapanthe “Often the words “curious”, “exotic”, or “magical” blossom from the mouths of visitors when describing them”. I would add electric, stunning, breathtaking – these gardens are simply the most staggering that I have seen. http://www.jardins-agapanthe.com/ 1 Impasse Agapanthe, 76850 Grigneuseville, Haute-Normandie, France (+33)
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How contemporary sculpture mixes with New Vintage
Monday, 16 June 2014
by caroline
How contemporary sculpture mixes with New Vintage I visited my friend Emma last week-end in Faversham, Kent. You walk through the front door of her “town” house, through the house and very quickly find yourself in a small haven in the back garden which is hard-landscaped built on stone and broken up by lush planting
- Published in Contemporary Planting, Gardens Visited, The New Vintage Garden, Uncategorized
A day at Great Dixter
Monday, 16 June 2014
by caroline
Great Dixter was the family home of gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd – it was the focus of his energy and enthusiasm and fuelled over 40 years of books and articles. Now under the stewardship of Fergus Garrett and the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Great Dixter is an historic house, a garden, a centre of
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, Gardens Visited
I’m loving pink
Thursday, 12 June 2014
by caroline
What a fabulous colour… soft, muted, adorable PINK. Look at these…
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, The New Vintage Garden
How to create a vista in a typical town garden
Sunday, 08 June 2014
by caroline
How to create a vista in a typical town garden A vista or the feeling of space and distance in a relatively small garden is ambitious but achievable. Even in a 10 acre site getting the proportions and balance is exacting so in a fairly typical London long and narrow garden this can be difficult
- Published in Contemporary Planting, The New Vintage Garden, Uncategorized