Last week saw the beginnings of an idea I have been toying with for some time. I have often been approached by clients to plant up their gardens using my eye for colour and texture. Of course creating a bouquet is quite different to that of planting a garden. However the main elements are the same.
Plants take a longer time to establish and flower, but the new obsession is to see a garden in full bloom in the summer when every flower can be viewed in its glory and enhance the garden immediately. If you are having a party in Spring, you can buy pots of flowering tulips and simply place them in your flower beds for an instant 'spring'. Likewise with the courtyard garden I planted last weekend, the feeling of summer is evident.
We used blue and white flowering plants like hydrangeas - a plant with high impact, scented roses, lavender, olive standards, agapanthus and various creeping flowering vines to soften the hard landscaping.
The result is one where you feel as if you are sitting amongst plants which have been there for years. The client commented that the garden needs a woman's touch and I could not agree more! I felt like Vita Sackville when she created the white garden in Sissinghurst,Kent with Harold Nicholson who created the hard landscaping and architectural hedges which were clipped and manicured to resemble walls, creating various rooms in a huge plot.
The house is the next step. I have been invited to style it with everything that speaks for its occupants! Watch this space.
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