Yew Planting

The nine Yews we ordered have arrived and today we made busy planting these in the front garden. The Yew will add an important architectural element to the space. They have replaced the assorted roses we inherited when we moved in last May.

In time we will trian the Yews into teardrop shapes and the line of nine in all will look quite stately. Come Summer we will plant under and around the Yews most probably with Scabia.

Then it was into the back garden to plant up the long border on the southern boundary. This included Cornus alba Variegata and Cornus alba 'Eleganti', Spiraea japonica 'Shirobana' and Spiraea japonica 'Candlelight' plus some Dicenta Alba. The lighter colour of leaf and flower is important to balance out the garden.

In the central round bed we also planted Lysimachia clethroides with its lovely swan neck like flowers. Keeping with the white theme we added Geranium cant. St. Ola more Dicentra Alba and Stachys bzantina (lanata). We can already see signs of small Allium leaves appearing in this border - we have previously planted Mt. Everest, Purple Sensation and Nigrum.

We added still further to the main herbaceous bed planting Papaver Orientale 'Patty's Plum', Achillea Cerise Queen and Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'.

Thankfully we have been lucky with the weather and getting this amount of planting done now has meant we are ahead of schedule with our planting plans.