The herbaceous border in the dream garden is packed with bulbs.

Am I allowed to feel a little bit proud of this border, a year after we moved in to this garden?

pink purple tulips

border side shot

Well, even if you won’t let me, I’ll have a jolly good moment of pride. This is what the garden looked like on the very first evening that we got here:

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That was a year ago. Here’s how it has changed in a year.

18 May
18 May 2014
11 May 2015

There are lots of bits of the garden that I’m proud of. But the herbaceous border and willow arch are the ones I think of the most.

At the moment, the tulips are dominating, though there is plenty of foliage working away too. I thought a lot about textures and colours when I planted this border up: the golden leaves of the dogwood, the deep red foliage of a peony plant and purple of the black elder, the silver of the artichoke and the frothy blue-green bronze fennel. These leaves make the border as much as the tulips and the alliums.

Follow the progress of the Dream Garden from start to finish here.

tulip close up

 

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