The Modern Cottage Garden: A Fresh Approach to a Classic Style by Greg Loades

Author:Greg Loades
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Gardening
ISBN: 9781604699081
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2020-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

many rust-coloured grasses such as orange-brown Carex testacea or brown Carex buchananii.

Calibrachoas also have an old-fashioned charm in the way they gently meander around the edges of borders or containers and evoke a memory

of hanging baskets edged with petunias in years gone by. Or grow a trailing Bidens species, dainty plants with flowers that resemble those of coreopsis, to add some elegant, sunny yellow blossom 135

to the edges of paths or pots through summer and autumn.

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Nemesias and diascias will flower through until the first frosts and may also scrape through winter if grown in soil or compost that drains exception-Above: Calibra-

ally well. Their delicate pastel-coloured flowers are pure old-fashioned choas gently

tumble over the

charm in a small but perfectly formed package. Most don’t grow more edges of containers

than 30cm (1ft) tall. Try a ‘Diamond Pink’ diascia below a pink echinacea without becoming

too dominant and

to create two tiers of complementary colour.

choking surround-

Pelargoniums have a lot to offer the garden, and among the finest is ing plants.

‘Lady Plymouth’ with its lemon-scented, palest green, variegated leaves Right: Neat and

compact Diascia

and delicate pink flowers. It will add elegance

‘Diamond Pink’ will

produce clouds of

to a container or sunny border where the soil blossom beneath

drains well. Try planting one in a container

tall plants in con-

tainers or at border

with Stipa tenuissima and placing it near a pink edges.

or salmon shrub rose for some summer sophis-

tication. Pot it up and bring it indoors before winter and it will make a fine houseplant on

a well-lit windowsill.

Brasher, but also a gift to the gardener creating a mixed border, are African marigolds.

So often grown in isolation where their pompon heads provide a mass of summer colour, they

take on a new, subtler lease of life when mixed with perennial rudbeckias and bronze grasses

such as Uncinia rubra.

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