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Donated by a dear friend who was having his garden redone last year, this #indiansunset is very much at home in my #southfacing #herbaciousborder where it’s #dry and #sunny. Fear not friends, #yoga photos will return soon... but in the meantime #flowers! (at Blackheath, London)
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Today I want to introduce another area of our garden to you. It’s the huge island bed in the center of our back garden.
Sitting on our porch we have a straight view on the island bed, which meanders in a huge organic shape around two old walnut trees. Behind it is our lawn and you can enjoy a relaxing view over fields and wild meadows. It is playing with borrowed landscape.
We started this bed off in the winter of 2015, by laying out the shape with bricks, removing the turf and adding fresh soil for a good plants growth. I can admit, that I had a general idea on how I envisioned the planting. I was aiming for a classic build up using perennials and ornamental grasses, with the higher plants in the center an the lower specimens at the front of the bed. The color scheme was based on light, pale and fresh colors, using blush, white and lavenders. As I didn’t do a proper planting plan, I started filling the gaps bit by bit and after two years I feel the planting doesn’t work for me.
It’s not a disaster, but there is a lot of room for improvement. All the ornamental grasses grew in really well, especially the Japanese blood grass ‘Red Baron’ (Imperata Cylindrica) is a show by end summer with it’s fiery red leafs next to the crimson pink Sedum. The photo above shows so well how the red grass is literally on fire, catching the light from the evening sun. I especially love the rhythm of red with the rose hips right at the terrace and the same color repeating itself in the island bed. I feel this sort of million red is such a strong focal point, which draws your attention straight on it. I am determined to introduce more red tones into the island bed, especially for late summer.
With this garden blog I want to take you on a tour throughout our gardening year. We, that is me and my husband gardening in our house right at the Baltic Sea. The garden is exposed to some harsh gales, that’s why it’s surrounded by hedges to protect our precious boarders.
Let me introduce you to one of our boarders. It’s the grass boarder right at the driveway to our house. We wanted to create a natural tapestry of different grasses and perennials using different plant height, flowers and structural appearance.
This boarder really comes to life by end of August. When the grasses are still small it’s the iris ‘English Cottage’ a reblooming bearded iris, in beautiful pale lilac and white tones that sets the scene in May. It’s only after it finishes flowering when the grasses gradually do take over and grow into their full glory. We used tall and upright Miscanthus, as the ‘Miscanthus giganteus’ mixed with the tall Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’, which changes it’s flowering color from brownish red into bronze tones over the season. The dome shaped Pennisetum ‘Hameln’ is arching over the driveway and softens the planting.
Blush and purple flowering colors set the tone for this boarder. The upright growing Sedum ‘Herbstfreude’ has beautiful fleshy leaves and horizontal growing, plate like pink flowers. In contrast stands the purple flowering Verbena Bonariensis. It’s flower heads are dancing over the boarder and it creates an airy and natural charm. Verbena is a self seeder and it finds it’s spot where it wants to grow best in the boarder.
We absolutely love the boarder by this time of the year. But comes early March and all the grasses and perennials are cut back hard, does the boarder look very sad. That’s why I am planing to plant some bulbs to start the season earlier.
