Hybrid musk roses (Penelope & Buff Beauty), Rugosa roserie de l'hay
Posted in Month: November 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
A vertical summer garden
by Mark Lutyens | 18th November 2013 | Work in Progress
On this grey November day, I comfort myself with this photo of the banked planting in the courtyard outside my office shot in late June. Achillea (A. Moonshine and Red Velvet), Eryngium Sapphire Blue, Lilium regale, Euphorbia characias, Linaria, alchemilla planted as...