By garden designer Sally Wilding-Webb. As Time Goes By features two designs that represent the same suburban garden in 1985 and 2010, showing how garden design has changed over a 25 year period.
The 1985 garden is relatively high maintenance.
It includes a central lawn with clipped edges, slab stepping stones leading to a small paved area in front of the tool shed, a patio next to the house, a pond with paved edging, a brick-built barbeque on the patio, and flower borders edging the grass.
The 2010 garden features ethically sourced sandstone paving, and a patio that leads between two ponds to a seating area with a raised bed to one side and behind, and a flower bed with scented planting on the other side.
This is a productive space in which to relax and escape the pressures of 21st century living.
Click on any of the plant names below to read more and to add to your own plants lists.
Bed to side of paving in front of
shed
Apples
Dianthus
Melissa officinalis
'Variegata'
Nepeta
mussinii
Lavandula
angustifolia
Salvia officinalis
Oregano
Rosa 'Aloha'
Thymus citriodorus
Thymus x
citriodorus 'Silver Queen'
Verbena corbariensis
Cistus x purpureus
Allium
schoenoprasum
Foeniculum vulgare
On fence
Peach 'Peregrine' (fan
trained)
Currants
Raspberries
Rosa 'Gertrude
Jekyll'
Vegetable plot
Tomato
'Moneymaker'
Tomato
'Gardener's Delight'
Lettuce
Spring Onion
Red onion
Strawberries
Shed roof
Sedum
Raised bed at rear of garden
Hellebore
Lavandula stoechas
Viola 'Jackanapes'
Campanula
portenschlagiana
Amelanchier
lamarckii
Cerastium
tomentosum
Spring bulbs in flower
Clematis armandii
'Apple Blossom' trained along fence
By ponds
Dierama pulcherrimum
Hosta
Houttynia cordata
'Chameleon'
Iris laevigata
'Variegata'
Lysimachia
nummularia
Nymphaea 'Red Pygmy'
Front bed
Allium 'Purple
Sensation'
Allium
schoenoprasum
Aquilegia
Carex
Choisya ternata
Helleborus
Imperata cylindrical
Ophiopogon
nigrescens
Paeonia 'Sarah
Bernhardt'
Papaver orientalis
Papaver rhoeas
Pennisetum
massaicum 'Red Buttons'
Rosmarinus
'Mrs Jessopps Upright'
Salvia
Salvia officinalis
'Purpurea Variegata'
Stipa gigantea
Stipa tenuissima
Thalictrum
aquilegifolium
Thymus 'Doone
Valley'
Thymus 'Silver
Posie'
Thymus citriodorus
Thymus x
citriodorus 'Silver Queen'
Viola
Over entrance arch
Wisteria
Clematis
Borders
Dianthus
barbatus
Polyanthus
Pelargonium
Hypericum
Phlox
Spiraea x bumalda 'Gold
Flame'
Tradescantia
andersoniana 'Isis'
Iberis sempervirens
Philadelphus
coronarius 'Aureus'
Fuchsia
Papaver orientalis
Around pond
Viburnum tinus
Syringa
Dicentra
spectabilis
Vinca minor
Astilbe
Dianthus
On trellis
Rosa 'Climbing Paul's
Scarlet'
Clematis 'Jackmanii'
Clematis 'Ville de
Lyon'