Silver gilt garden by Jinny Blom. This is a romantic contemporary French themed garden, exploring garden plants suitable for chalk or calcareous soils. It utilises styles of building and materials evocative of northern France with the emphasis on irises and peonies with stylised meadow planting.
Garden
description
Laurent-Perrier looked back to its roots in the chalky landscape of Champagne to create this French Show Garden. The garden celebrates how, from a seemingly weak and unyielding chalk landscape, a spectacular richness of growth can flourish and be transformed into fine wines in Champagne. The garden only includes plants that are chalk and lime tolerant and structures that are deftly crafted from natural chalk materials.
Soft, delicate planting, abundant with roses, irises,
peonies and gentle wild meadow-flowers, is set within the formal
structures of chalk rock (Totternhoe Clunch) walls, crafted by
artist David Wilson. The garden combines the
spontaneous, herbaceous planting with classic French stylistic
statements, such as box-headed limes
(Tilia).
Romantic colours have been carefully considered: pale creamy whites, blush and coppery tones are present around the terrace, deepening to clarets and pale blues in the meadow.
A
key feature of the garden is a white metal-framed Gloriette
echoing, in skeletal form, the undeniably French roofline of a
hypothetical Chateau. An L-shaped pool represents a 'vivier' or
typically French spring-fed trout pool.
Plant list: (click on any of the green links below to read more about the plant and to add to your own 'Plants I want' list)
Lime Perimeter
Tilia
Buxus sempervirens
Clematis
flammula
Cydonia oblonga
Ilex crenata
Fig (Ficus
carica)
Mespilus germanica
Lonicera
periclymenum 'Belgica'
Paeonia delavayi
var. lutea
Rosa
glauca
Rosa 'Rambling
Rector'
Rosa banksiae 'Lutea'
Viburnum opulus
'Roseum'
Deschampsia
caespitosa
Geranium phaeum
'Samobor'
Hesperis matronalis var. albiflora
Pergola
Rosa banksiae 'Lutea'
Pool
Iris laevigata var. alba
Nymphaea alba
Typha angustifolia
Paeony Bed
Geranium sylvaticum 'Album'
Iris 'Beverly Sills'
Iris 'Goodbye Heart'
Paeonia 'Duchesse de Nemours'
Paeonia 'Sarah
Bernhardt'
Viola cornuta Alba
Group
Lower Border
Buxus sempervirens
Deschampsia
cespitosa
Dryopteris filix-mas
Iris sibirica 'White
Swirl'
Veronica
gentianoides 'Tissington White'
Zantedeschia
aethiopica
Tulipa 'Maureen' or 'Purissima'
External Border
Rosa banksiae 'Lutea'
Rosa glauca
Rosa 'Dioressence'
Alcea ficifolia - foliage only
Deschampsia
cespitosa
Dryopteris filix-mas
Echium vulgare
Hesperis matronalis
Iris 'Chartreuse Ruffles'
Lilium candidum
Lychnis
flos-cuculi
Meadow
Fraxinus ornus - multistem
Cercis siliquastrum -
multistem
Rosa 'Reine des Violettes'
Rosa 'Dames de Chenonceau'
Rosa x odorata 'Mutabilis'
Lonicera
periclymenum 'Belgica'
Buxus sempervirens
Aconitum 'Spark's
Variety'
Allium 'Purple
Sensation'
Aquilegia alpina
Aquilegia vulgaris
'Nivea'
Aquilegia 'Ruby
Port'
Aquilegia 'White Star'
Astrantia major
Astrantia major 'Roma'
Centranthus ruber
'Albus'
Cirsium rivulare
'Atropurpureum'
Delphinium 'Tiddles'
Delphinium 'Mystique'
Delphinium 'Gillian Dallas'
Deschampsia
cespitosa
Digitalis purpurea
f. albiflora
Geranium 'Birch Lilac'
Geranium phaeum var. lividum
Geranium
pratense 'Mrs Kendal Clarke'
Gladiolus byzantinus
Hesperis matronalis var. albiflora
Iris 'Pink Angel'
Iris 'Secret Melody'
Iris 'Success Fou'
Iris sibirica 'White
Swirl'
Lilium candidum
Lilium martagon
Nectaroscordum
siculum
Verbascum phoenicium 'Violetta'
Veronica
gentianoides 'Tissington White'
Papaver orientale 'Patty's Plum'
Papaver rhoeas
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