Samantha Jane Garden Design
Category: In The Garden
Topiary Trimming Time
The big geometric dove is being trimmed. We are having to prune the Magnolia quite a bit too so to let the light through to the tail. It takes about 4 weeks for us to trim all of the large…
Read MoreThe Beauty and Excitement of These Free Plants
In the summer we have the most beautiful woodland walkway of “Common Turk Caps Lilies” or “Martagon Lilies” or in Latin Lilium martagon. They really do give the most stunning, elegant, blushing-pink summer display. A stretch of this kind is…
Read MoreThe Thrill of Planting a New Tree
Planting trees is always special, you get that wonderful feeling that you are leaving your mark on the landscape for a very long time. We probably plant on average 20 trees per year on the estate that’s not including all…
Read MoreThe Latest Pictures of The Herbaceous Borders at The Beginning of April
The lush borders are really starting to fill-up now and the Tulips are beginning to burst open.
Read MoreA Photograph Showing How the Hellebores are Extending the Seasonal Interest
In the Herbaceous Borders
Read MoreStriking New Golden Foliage
Breathtaking new gold foliage of the “Golden Ninebark” Physocarpus opulifolius aureus in the foreground of this picture. I planted it in the Gold Border about four years ago and have since filled out the border with more mass-planting of Hellebores…
Read MoreMarch In the Garden
Yesterday I was racing around dividing clumps of Primulas that seem to have done the best that I have seen in years, they have been self-seeding everywhere, today I am hurriedly trying to pot-on the Pelargonium plugs that I received…
Read MoreLate February In the Garden
Due to the previous weeks of strong winds we are still picking up twigs and branches that were strewn across the gardens. A new section of hedge line is being cleared, I would like to get this done before the…
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Samantha Jane CHort, MCIHort, Dip.Hort.(Kew), MPGCA
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