Childwickbury, early August 2011

Posted by Amanda on Aug 4, 2011 in Featured, Grade II listed house, Projects | 0 comments

I visited the gardens at Childwickbury on a softly sunny evening in early August 2011, the first summer after planting.

While no-one was looking, the white flowered, silver leaved Lychnis made itself at home and started to self-seed about the place in a cottagey kind of way, with my client relishing in giving spare seedlings to gardening friends. Bees adore the late flowering maroon Allium sphaerocephalon and Cynara, whose robust thistle heads of purple are beautifully back-lit against the dark purple leaves of the Cotinus.