Hybrid musk roses (Penelope & Buff Beauty), Rugosa roserie de l'hay
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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
![Glorious June…](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/salde.back_.border.june_.jpg)
Glorious June…
by Mark Lutyens | 27th June 2021 | Planting Thoughts
Hybrid musk roses (Penelope & Buff Beauty), Rugosa roserie de l'hay
![Glorious June…](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/slade.artichokes.june_.jpg)
Glorious June…
by Mark Lutyens | 27th June 2021 | Planting Thoughts
Artichokes, elephant garlic and Allium Purple Rain
![More colour in June](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/valerian-sladeJune.jpg)
More colour in June
by Mark Lutyens | 25th June 2021 | Planting Thoughts
Also mid-summer, self-sown red valerian (Centranthus ruber), Geranium Brookside, yellow Phlomis fruticosa
![More orange…](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/eremurus.and-geum.jpg)
More orange…
by Mark Lutyens | 25th June 2021 | Planting Thoughts
Mid-summer, Eremurus Cleopatra and Geum Princess Juliana in a new bed
![The colour orange in spring](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/orange.tulips.jpg)
The colour orange in spring
by Mark Lutyens | 30th April 2021 | Planting Thoughts
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](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20190812_190847-copy.jpeg)
Folly on the Isle of Wight
by Mark Lutyens | 30th April 2021 | Work in Progress
A photo of the cupola made and in place...
![A folly on the Isle of Wight](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20210419_110320-copy.jpeg)
A folly on the Isle of Wight
by Mark Lutyens | 30th April 2021 | Work in Progress
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](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/marklutyens.seat_.under_.plane_.tree_-e1617354270174.jpeg)
Oak garden seat with a view
by Mark Lutyens | 18th March 2021 | Work in Progress
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](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Mark.cornflowers.Hillsborough-e1617354652839.jpg)
Hillsborough Castle
by Mark Lutyens | 11th September 2019 | Work in Progress
Mark sitting on his tree seat in a cloud of blue cornflowers, in the new walled garden at Hillsborough Castle, July 2019
![Hillsborough Castle](https://www.mark-lutyens.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/dovecote.Hillsborough.jpg)
Hillsborough Castle
by Mark Lutyens | 20th June 2019 | Work in Progress
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