THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Plants for Clay Soil
There are lots of plants for clay soil. Difficult as it is to work with, the opportunities to tend a …
Roses
Most garden designers have a palette of plants they trust, know and use. This repetition gives a certain style to their work and helps them build a consistent client base, although a planting style can change rapidly and distinctly. Tom Stuart-Smith wrote, “Initially we went through quite a fluffy pink rose stage, clipped box, cranesbills and great swags of blousy pink Ispahan and purplish crimson Charles de Mill… this initial blousy pinkness overlapped with something of orange Kniphofia moment (which now seems a little improbable) then followed by a more wild Verbascum and opium poppy explosion in the early 90’s and an …
Dan Pearson’s Must-Have Plants: Shrubs & Trees
The final part of Dan Pearson’s list, to inspire you to hopefully plant a tree or two… we have so far seen his views on bulbs, perennials and grasses, but now we come to what he recommends we plant in the woodier genre! I would love to plant some of these and use them as topiary, my own favourite style of gardening – which you can see more of here in The Guardian. The Laurus nobilis he recommends planting is of course a brilliant plant for topiary and pruning, mostly because it reflects the light and grows back when pruned. …
Dan Pearson’s Must-Have Plants: Perennials
Now we get to the heart of Dan Pearson’s plant recommendations… and he offers far more perennials than another designer we have written of… (Do also check out this review of his excellent book ‘Spirit’.) Perennials Acanthus mollis latifolius group ‘Rue Ledan’ Actaea cordifolia Anemone x Hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’ Angelica edulis Aralia cordata Baptisia Alba var. Macrophylla Brunnera macrophylla ‘Betty Bowring’ Bupleurum longifolium ‘Bronze Beauty’ Cephalaria dipsacoides Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Dierama pulcherrimum ‘Blackbird’ Digitalis ferruginea Disporum longistylum ‘Night Heron’ Epimedium wushanense ‘caramel’ Erigeron karvinskianus Eryngium agavifolium Eryngium ebracteatum Ferula tingitana ‘Cedric Morris’ Foeniculum vulgare ‘Purpureum’ Gaura lindheimeri Geranium ‘Tiny Monster’ Gillenia …