Gaura lindheimeri or Lindheimer’s bee blossom as described by Caroline Garland
Monday, 05 August 2013
by caroline
Gaura lindheimeri or White gaura or Lindheimer’s bee blossom Family: Onagraceae This is such a pretty plant. Graceful tallish fronds of soft white/pink four-petalled flowers which look lovely for a good length of time in any garden border. The name Gaura is from the Greek Gauros meaning ‘superb’, and relates to the striking flowers. G.
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Hydrangea aspera subsp. ‘Sargentiana’ or Sargent hydrangea as described by Caroline Garland
Thursday, 01 August 2013
by caroline
Hydrangea aspera subsp. ‘Sargentiana’ or Sargent hydrangea Family:Hydrangeaceae H. aspera subsp. sargentiana is an upright medium-sized deciduous shrub of open habit, with peeling bark and large, velvety ovate leaves. Flowers in large flat heads, purple or blue, surrounded by white ray florets. This a really beautiful, graceful shrub, often overlooked, but don’t because it is
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Macleaya or plume poppy as described by Caroline Garland, garden designer
Thursday, 01 August 2013
by caroline
Macleaya x kewensis ‘Kelway’s Coral Plume’ or plume poppy ‘Kelway’s Coral Plume’ Family:Papaveraceae Macleaya are large herbaceous rhizomatous perennials with handsome palmately lobed leaves and large airy panicles of tiny flowers. They tend to be rather underestimated but their leaves are so soft and sagey green that they fill the back of a border splendidly
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Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’ as described by Caroline Garland
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
by caroline
Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’ or Wallflower ‘Bowles Mauve’ Family: Brassicaceae Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’ is a plant that every garden should have. It manages to flower almost all year long apart from in the depths of winter. It is every gardener’s dream as it fills and flowers and looks happy and grows and does everything you want
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Battersea, Balham, Clapham &Wandsworth Residents’ Journal – interview with Caroline Garland
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
by caroline
012 BBCW JULY 13 RESIDENT INTERVIEW CAROLINE GARLANDBattersea, Balham, Clapham & Wandsworth Residents’ Journal interview with Caroline Garland page 12!
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Hydrangea quercifolia as described by Caroline Garland
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
by caroline
Hydrangea quercifolia or oak-leaved hydrangea Family name: Hydrangeaceae When this shrub works well it is glorious because of the generous, heavy cream flowers, in conical panicles with numerous large sterile florets. It likes the full sun or part shade, and will grow well in almost all aspects, sheltered or exposed. Therefore it is versatile and
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Allium giganteum as described by Caroline Garland, garden designer
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
by caroline
Allium giganteum or the giant onion It’s family name: Alliaceae This is one of my absolute favourites. In fact my gardeners call it my signature plant.. but then I seem to have lots of those! It likes full sun so a south-facing border suits it best, but it will survive perfectly well in north,
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Caroline Garland, garden designer’s visit to Woolbeding, West Sussex
Saturday, 27 July 2013
by caroline
Given to the National Trust in 1957 by the Lascelles family fro 1972 Woodbeding has been leased to Simon Sainsbury, who restored the 17th century house and created and developed the extensive gardesn with Stewart Grimshaw. Lanning Roper and Isabel and Julian Bannerman have had a marked influence on the garden’s design which is full
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Caroline Garland’s visit to Great Fosters, Egham – a well kept secret!
Friday, 05 July 2013
by caroline
The history of Great Fosters is made up of quite a mishmash of owners over the years so has quite a bit of architectural mix going back to Jacobean times but it is a lovely place with surprisingly beautiful gardens encompassing topiary, ancient and contemporary statues and a stunning rose garden with pergola. If you
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Caroline Garland’s visit to Le Bois des Moutiers…Lutyens Lutyens everywhere! with a smattering of Gertrude Jekyll
Monday, 24 June 2013
by caroline
In fact this should really be the other way round. The garden is a french garden in Normandy: the house designed in 1898 by Sir Edwin Lutyens and the garden by Gertrude Jekyll, the only one like it in France.. However where the planting is absolutely pure Jekyll heaven the house is pure Lutyens hell!
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Caroline Garland’s visit to Les Jardins de Sericourt, Normandy – weird but wonderful
Sunday, 23 June 2013
by caroline
These gardens have evolved through the ownership and work of Yves and Guillaume Gosse de Gorre (father and son) who have made a garden which suggests various war scenes such as the warrior garden, the battlefield, the warrior masks, bombshell craters, aisle of mourners etc etc. It is weird and wonderful, but fascinating…
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Caroline Garland’s visit to Les Jardins Agapanthe, Normandy – a small paradise
Sunday, 23 June 2013
by caroline
These gardens are owned and designed by Alexandre Thomas and you have never seen anything quite like them… you walk into another world. Take a look at these photos and you’ll see what I mean
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