The late Christopher Lloyd clearly had the feeling that he had to act for the special meadow that she greeted when she arrived at Great Dixter in East Sussex. “Your first sight when entering the entrance gate consists of two areas of rough grass, on both sides of the way to the house … You are not just grass diagrams that we were intended for lack of contractions, but were intended from the start.” Every spring for more than 100 years the lawn has turned into a wonderful, dancing wall carpet made of delicate flowering onions in the long grass: pale silver Yellow tommasinianusThe wild daffodils Narcissus Pseudonarcissus And the checkered snake head Fritillary.
These two uplifting stripes of jewelized meadows shed light on the other on the onions until the spines of star blue Camassia Quamash are accompanied by four types of local orchid that simply arrived themselves. Apart from the cutting of the grass, if everything has set seed – and certainly removing the cut material – the only other requirement is to “continue to experiment with other ingredients and look for those who take care of yourself as soon as you have a start”.
William Robinson was committed to “enjoying” the beauty of the flowering of spring flowers earlier even earlier. His revolutionary book from 1870 The wild garden suggested to plant light bulbs in natural groups or nicely painted colonies in areas with long grass so that “everything should be different, vague and changed”. He founded the extraordinary six hectare large meadow, the first of her kind in front of his West Sussex House Gravetye Manor. Today, under the chief gardener Tom Coward, the meadow continues to shimmer from early spring to midsummer with thousands of light bulbs planted by Robinson, and thousands more in the past 15 years from Mr. Coward.
In Angel Collins' parterre Meadow, the year begins with Narcissus' Thalia 'and' Avalanche ', Tulipa' Queen of Night 'and' Mariette ', then Camassia Leichtinii' Caerulea '.
(Photo credit: Clive Nichols)
While we rethink our treatment of onions as a disposable spectacle, a concrete appetite appears to reinterpret the traditional, long-lasting one meadow. Angel Collins designs classically beautiful country gardens and also understands that it has to be practical. She saw how her concept of the ground floor Meadow has decreased in the past 10 years. “I almost always make them for customers. Usually there is an area that has to be a maintenance manager, and that's really. '
In her own garden, she took a three-quarter of the former pony driver's warehouse and marked 22 rectangular fours and 18 smaller ways in between. She added yew cubes for structure and scattering of flowering shrubs and small trees for height and color throughout the season. There are multi-stems Amelanchier Lamarckii For spring flowers and autumn color, roses 'scarletglow' (for scarlet blossoms and shiny autumn hiches) and 'Cerise Bouquet' (with gracefully vaulted habit and cherry crimson blossoms) and also) Calycanthus “Aphrodite”, which produces Burgundian -colored, magnolia -like flowers from July to August.
Then the light bulbs come. Your year begins with daffodil “Thalia” and “Avalanche” – “The beautiful decent white” and continues with tulips in rich velvety colors such as “Queen of Night”, “Apricot Foxx”, “Slawa” and “Mariette”. Lavender blue Leischotline cameras “Caerulea” and the white “Alba” follow with N. Poeticus And alliums. “The soil is rich and the grass grows long, so that you need high allia,” notes Ms. Collins. ''Garlic Cristophii just don't work. One of the best is A. Nigrum -The robust, flat floor-naturalized so well. 'When the grass has to cut, the key is. “If you want Camassias, you have to wait until the beginning of July. I get someone with a skythe mower and remove and compost the cut grass. It refreshes everything and looks wonderful. '
The writer and garden designer Mary Keen created a meadow meadow behind her honey color in a West Country Market Town. After years of work on the size of a Georgian rectory, she enjoyed the chance to demand the right onions to create a small but perfectly shaped embroidery of spring flowers. 'I wanted the ghostly white Yellow tommasinianusBut suppliers always send something darker that are not well naturalized. In the end I had some of Sissinghurst in Kent because they dig them up. 'As well as crocus also enclosed their initial layer of onions Anemone mixture ('The blue colors') and the high pink Gladiolus usual Sub. Byzantinus“You need the good dark form of Great Dixter”. She hesitated to use narcissuses Narcissus Fernandesii our. Cordubensis And 'cocopelli', which has almost easy -to -use and numerous tiny, fragrant flowers along each trunk.
She tries narcissus in pots to get to know and expand it. He adds a few fresh lamps to avoid the “colorful” effect after contacting. Species tulips are adequately sensitive. 'I have Tulipa ClusianaPresent T. low And the best of all T. acuminata' – What you admire for its fiery shredded petals when the grass grows longer – and there is later there Camassia Quamash “The smaller, darker wild”, which is exactly the right size at just 12 inches. In spring she advises photos so that you can see what should be added in autumn: “This year I will put more Jonquils near the edges.”
In the Netherlands, light bulbs that naturalize well naturalized Stinking plants After the old country house gardens, in which crocus and muscari appear spectacular sheets from anemones every spring, even if the original house has disappeared. Dutch lightbulbing suppliers are working hard to work with beautiful and subtle new versions of these worshiped favorites and the landscape designer, florist and “Bulbista” Carien van Boxtel (the expert, to the Sarah Raven to turn light bulbs), that the idea of a jewel of Wiestens can change in something that can change in a little more and Can change changes than to change Robinon.
In 2023 it was commissioned by Jub Holland and Rijnbeek Perennials to design the first sustainable program for decades in the famous Keikenhof garden near Amsterdam in the Netherlands -which is otherwise based on seven million annual tulip lamps for its spectacular march committees. Instead of lawn, Ms. Van Boxel uses grasses such as Very high pomelica 'Alba', with its airy, rice -like flowers and the light golden grass of bowles as well as ferns and perennials with a good -looking spring leave, such as the lace -leaved Thalictrum “Black stockings” to create a structured background for a result of delicious onions.
Blue Camassias and Pheasant's Eye Narzissus, N. Poeticus var. Recurvus in Damson and Quince orchard in the Sarah Raven's Perch Hill Farm in East Sussex.
(Photo credit: Jonathan Buckley)
It uses light bulbs to paint with color: crocuses range from 'Blue Pearl' with its shiny silver interior to rich 'aqua' to 'flower recording', another rich mauve with prominent orange petals. “After flowering, the leaves of the crocus grow like crowded, which is another trick to give a planting scheme a Meadowy feeling.” Conversely, it selects grape hyacinths that do not produce too much “annoying” leaves and form subtle ligaments of deep indigo (Muscari Latifolium) Faded wine red (M. 'Grape hyacinth') and Palisst Blue (blue (blueM. Armeniacum 'Valerie Finnis'). Ms. Van Boxtels Lampen -Mania plants list is exhilarating. My favorite discovery is her way of using wonderful new varieties of Fritillary: “You are so important to add the height”. I meet the 3ft high Fritillaria Peacher 'Green Dreams', the loose bells made of strange, almost dirty, light green and brown producing-and I'm beaten.
The garden designer Sheila Jack specializes in contemporary gardens and has created a sophisticated “clean and reserved” glühren in her Wiltshire garden. She uses the light green multi -year grass Sesleria as a matrix in which she plants a limited sequence of onions and perennials. First swarms come from white daffodil 'Thalia', which blooms like the white -flowered crab apple at the same time Malus “Evereste”.
This is followed by the stars of the show: magical tips from Leischotline cameras “Pink Star”. “They are really beautiful, strong stems and large flowers of the most beautiful light pink with egg-yolk dust leaves.” The Camassia glow bulbs came from specialist suppliers Hare Spring Cottage plants in Devon – they have to be quick from the brand to order just a few – and follow waves of waves of waves from Iris SibiricaThen floating blue heads from Teufels a little sloped.
The maintenance is required compared to the time that is required to remove cutting grass made of wildflower meadows. I simply give the Sesleria good equipment in February to stop it fluttering. The result is a simple but exhausting meadow, which connects the more intensive borders near the house with the landscape beyond the landscape.