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Wildflower planting was THE trend at Chelsea in 2012.  Lovely bright points of flower head colour bobbing against a background of lush grass and leaves. You might try buying wildflower turf by the metre, as at the Lindum ‘Out of the Blue Garden’ (left), or go for a classy look using only white ragged robin, …

Visiting Kew earlier this month I enjoyed the low winter sun on the rusting patina of the ‘stems’ holding up the treetop walkway. Angles in the structure replicate the angle in some branching trees, and also some of the adjacent paths in the park.  The orange colour was picked up in the last few leaves …

Cycling home I spied this stand of Anemone x hybrida spot lit in the late afternoon sun and diverted into Archbishop Park to enjoy them better. Standing 1.2 – 1.5m on slim stems, their cup shape flowers nod and wave in the breeze, providing suspended moving dots of pink. Other varieities of Anemone x hybrida …