by GillianPolley | Dec 18, 2015 | 2015, advent season, back gardens, bulbs, Carex comans bronze, Carex oshimensis 'Evergold', Christmas, colour in the garden, containers, cyclamen, December, Design, Edinburgh, evergreen plants, Festive plant container, focal points in the garden, front garden, garden inspiration, Grasses, herbaceous perennials, Heuchera 'Plum Pudding', livingreendesign, long flowering period, low maintenance plants, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Sarcococca Purple Stem, scent, shrubs, Skimmia japonica, winter colour, winter scent in the garden
Christmas is here, and people are busy decorating their christmas trees and decking their halls, but don’t forget your garden. A festive styled plant container in a position near a door or viewed from a window really cheers up a garden. At plant nurseries and...
by GillianPolley | Oct 1, 2015 | 2015, A Day Out, art in the garden, autumn colour, BBC, BBC Gardeners' World, Colour, colour in the garden, Edinburgh, garden inspiration, garden views, habitat for wildlife, herbaceous perennials, insect habitat, insects, Lawns, long flowering period, low maintenance plants, naturalistic planting, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Prairie planting, sculpture in the garden, seats in the garden, september, sussex prairie garden, sussex prairies garden
If you are down in Sussex and looking for a good garden to visit, don’t hesitate to go and see Sussex Prairies Garden, we had a lovely afternoon in the beautiful garden a couple of weeks ago. You can wander in eight acres of naturalistically planted prairie...
by GillianPolley | Jun 12, 2015 | 2015, August, back gardens, bees, bees and insects, Chelsea Flower Show, Colour, colour in the garden, Design, early summer, Edinburgh, evergreen plants, front garden, Geum 'Cosmopolitan', Geum 'Lemon Drops', Geum 'Prinses Juliana', Geum 'Totally Tangerine', Geums, Geums - stalwarts of the flower border, herbaceous perennials, long flowering period, low maintenance plants, Plants, Polley Garden Design, stalwart garden plants, summer, summer flowering plants
Geums have been one of the talked about plants at Chelsea in the last few years – the orange coloured ‘Prinses Juliana’ (height 60cm, spread 50cm), flowers May – July, and ‘Totally Tangerine’ (height 75cm, spread 50cm) flowers April...
