Planting List for the entire garden - pt 1

The Planting List

The plants have been chosen to compliment and contrast each other with an emphasis on colour, pattern, texture and form, as well as providing all year seasonal interest.

Pots and containers may be moved from time to time in order to alter the planting schemes.

Grotto at the rear of the pond

Hosta ‘Great Expectations’’

Dryopteris ereythrosora (Japanese shield fern)

Large cast iron classical urn left of the pond

Cordyline Patio palm, Nepeta (Trailing foliage)

Seasonal planting to coordinate with colour theme surrounding the pond

Woodland garden and rocky outcrop at side of house

Asarum splendens  (Chinese wild ginger)

Asplenium scolopendrium ‘Angustifolia’ (Harts tongue fern)

Clematis montana ‘Marjorie’

Clematis viticella ‘Kerminsina’

Clematis montana ‘Miss Christine’

Clematis ‘The President’

Echinops sphaerocephalus.

Helleborus orientalis  Harvington - yellow speckled

Helleborus orientalis Harvington - smokey blues

Helleborus orientalis Harvington - double reds

Dry riverbed pathway

Various native ferns

Hosta ‘Zounds’, Hosta ‘Gold Standard’

Dicksonia Antarctica, (Tree fern approx 40 years old.)

Lower deck in large planter right hand side of house door

Hedera helix ‘Goldheart’ (Growing over drainpipe & rear wall of the house)

Stipa gigantea ( Tall grass)  Clematis arm. ‘Apple Blossom’

Area surrounding the pond

Large  Acer palmatum ‘Seiyru’ (Underplanted with Hosta ‘Patriot’, Veronica ‘Tissington White’ & Arisarum proboscideum)

Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Tom Thumb’

Ligularia clivorum ‘Desdemona’  

Leymus arenarius  

Carex pendula

Luzula sylvatica ‘Marginata’  ‘Greater Wood Rush’

Cyperus eragrostis  Hosta ‘Royal Standard’

Hosta ‘Great Expectations’  

Hosta ‘Big Daddy’

Hosta ‘Wheaton Blue’  

Hosta ‘Frances Williams’

Hosta ‘Wheaton Blue’

Acer palmatum ‘Garnet’ Dicksonia antarctica  (Tree fern)

Italianate garden in front of temple folly ruin

Two large Buxus sempervirens. (Large spiral topiary box)

Native ferns & Miscanthus sinensis.

Cedar Thuja occidentalis ‘Smaragd’ standard

(Trachycarpus fortunei  (Windmill palm in planter left of folly

The Royal Horticultural Society

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