Hybrid musk roses (Penelope & Buff Beauty), Rugosa roserie de l'hay
Posted in Month: July 2013
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Glorious June…
Artichokes, elephant garlic and Allium Purple Rain
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.
Folly on the Isle of Wight
A photo of the cupola made and in place...
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
Millstone fountain
by Mark Lutyens | 19th July 2013 | Work in Progress
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
by Mark Lutyens | 18th July 2013 | Work in Progress
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