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)
- Published in Uncategorized
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
New Vintage in a small town plot
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
by caroline
I have chosen my friend Posy as a case study for my New Vintage garden design theme. This is because she too has a New Vintage approach to planting and garden design. This approach blends contemporary naturalistic planting with a palette of soft colour and every now and then a surprise of rich colour and
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, The New Vintage Garden
3 Unusual plants for New Vintage gardens
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
by caroline
Here are some unusual plants for the middle to back of a New Vintage border. Just add them for their originality and fun. They are not very common and yet they are all reasonably robust so we can use them very effectively for variety and interest. Nectaroscordum are deciduous bulbous perennials with linear, garlic-scented leaves
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, The New Vintage Garden
6 great reds for a New Vintage planting scheme
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
by caroline
In itself the colour RED is New Vintage. Planting has concentrated on greens and whites and sometimes soft hay colours such as you see with naturalistic planting in grasses etc. It is time to bring some colour back into our borders and this is part of my New Vintage scheme. Chose a soft palette
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, The New Vintage Garden
Top 10 plants that recurred at the Chelsea Flower Show. All very New Vintage
Friday, 23 May 2014
by caroline
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – Planting Top 10 plants that recurred at the Chelsea Flower Show. All very New Vintage. These plants turned up in several gardens and are clearly very much loved at the moment. I would like to see all of these plants in any New Vintage planting scheme that I might do.
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, The New Vintage Garden
Burton Agnes, East Yorkshire
Thursday, 08 May 2014
by caroline
Simon Jenkins, author of England’s Thousand Best Houses, described Burton Agnes Hall as ‘the perfect English house’ and as one of the twenty best English houses alongside Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Chatsworth House. http://www.burtonagnes.com/Home.html If you were ever unsure how to handle yew hedging here is your answer! The gardens are really lovely and there
- Published in Gardens Visited