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Glorious June…

Hybrid musk roses (Penelope & Buff Beauty), Rugosa roserie de l'hay

More colour in June

Also mid-summer, self-sown red valerian (Centranthus ruber), Geranium Brookside, yellow Phlomis fruticosa

More orange…

Mid-summer, Eremurus Cleopatra and Geum Princess Juliana in a new bed

The colour orange in spring

At this time of year when the predominant colours are yellow (daffodils and primroses) and blue (forget-me-nots), more and more, I like orange tulips.  They go so well with the dry colours of late winter - sage, phlomis, cistus - and the new growth of spring.

A folly on the Isle of Wight

This was a nice surprise, five years after I had produced a sketch design for a cupola to embellish a folly on the Isle of Wight - and had forgotten all about it - I was sent some photos of it.  Here's the sketch which I believe hangs in the folly and a photo of thing...

Oak garden seat with a view

Mark Lutyens garden seat under a plane tree in Somerset.  Deigned by ML and made by master craftsman Rob Hibberd. (St Patrick's Day 2021)

Hillsborough Castle

Mark sitting on his tree seat in a cloud of blue cornflowers, in the new walled garden at Hillsborough Castle, July 2019

Hillsborough Castle

The Dovecote or Shell House in the Walled Garden at Hillsborough Castle: Designed by Mark Lutyens & Catherine FitzGerald; made by craftsmen from The Prince's Trust, 2019

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Millstone fountain

Millstone fountain

by | 19th July 2013 |

This is a small fountain we made 5 years ago - a millstone mounted in a stainless steel tank (made by Mark Bazeley, the Nottingham master fabricator) - which is the centre piece of a small geometric box (Buxus) parterre with blue iris in-fill planting. When first...

Isle of Wight Garden

Isle of Wight Garden

by | 18th July 2013 |

High summer and a heatwave on the Isle of Wight has brought this new garden to life. The gravel garden plantings - Gaura, valerian, Verbena bonariensis, Eryngium, thymes, Stipa tenuissima etc - have exploded. See the earlier blog for a view of this garden 6 months ago