Enjoy exclusive access to this trend-setting garden, which offers you wonderful mixed borders incorporating new plant introductions including some from New Zealand and Australia. Plantings inspired by the Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf surround a 1920’s patio. A lush boulevard planting designed for year round interest surrounds this turn of the century Edwardian home tucked in on a street of other heritage homes. Throughout there is vibrant bloom and interplay of colour and foliage texture, which has been enhanced through a great use of grasses. Accenting these plantings are fences, trellises and arbours out of local red alder; concrete columns, planters and sculptures; pebble mosaics and water features. All of the plantings and garden architecture were designed and created by the creative young woman who has created this beautiful garden which speaks to its history.
 Edwardian 1908 home tucked in on a street of other heritage houses. The owner has expanded her gardening passion onto the bulevard surrounding her red alder fencing.
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 Wattle fence looking at neighbouring heritage home in early spring.
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 Wattle fence with honeysuckle in winter.
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 A Red alder arbour and wattle fence The wattling of the fence and the supports of the arbour are made of red alder saplings (our equivalent to willow) in a style that was popular during the Edwardian era.
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 Outdoor seating area is on the original 1920’s checkerboard serves as the outdoor room for entertaining.
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 Herb planting including a Jeruselum Artichoke (Cardoon) with an Eddie’s Crimson rose spilling over wattle fence.
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 Boulevard honeysuckle on wattle fence in summer.
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 Red alder gate - The creative young woman whose garden this is, has designed and built her own fences, trellises and arbours out of local red alder. The rustic nature of these garden structures harkens back to the Rustic Style, a style that was used as part of the Heritage Trend at the 2004 Chelsea show.
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 Harmonious burgundy, pink planting - A limited colour pallet of burgundy and pink, set off by a contrasting planting of pale yellow has been utilized at the Heritage Garden. . In this case the deep burgundy purple succulent foliage of the sedum ‘Purple Emperor’ anchors the planting with different shapes of leaves and flower forms worked into the design for extra interest.
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 The Chinese foxglove) (Rehmannia elata) a perennial that, with deadheading, produces large vibrant rosy purple tubular blooms with yellow and red spotted throats blooms throughout the summer. They can be combined with lower growing perennials such as heucheras or ajugas.for year round foliage interest.
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 Thalictrum polyganum (tall meadow rue) with its soft creamy-white clouds combines with the silver white spires of Veronicastrum viginicum roseum, the spherical reddish purple blooms of the drumstick allium (Allium sphaerocephalon), the soft pink of a monarda and the bluish lavender blossoms of Nepeta ‘Pool Bank.’ All against a background of contrast provided by an orange and brown helianthus. The soft pastels of these combinations speak of romance.
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 At the Heritage Home and Garden you enter under a rustic red alder arch into a garden room with a rectangular gravel patio bordered with cement tiles that have a slate-like finishing. (The trend of taking up grass and installing a gravel floor is continuing in popularity).. A central focal point is created by a mosaic square upon which an upside down urn serves as a pedestal to support a.large container featuring the trend setting southern hemisphere plants including a parahebe and a cordyline
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 The container echoes the great interplay of colour and foliage texture of the surrounding borders which are an interpretation of the European Wave natural style garden inspired by the Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. The geometry of this hardscaping provides a counterpoint to this luxuriant planting style.
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 A pebble mosaic fountain, pink and white foxgloves and the fine mauve cloud of a thalictrum evokes a fusion of the romantic and Middle Eastern styles. (Romance and Middle Eastern landscape influence were both Chelsea 2004 trends). Extra structure is given to this planting by a Hydrangea aspera with its large velvety leaves which will soon have large flat lace-cap flower heads of mauve-pink petioles. A dark leafed cimicifuga (Actaea simplex ‘Brunette’) will soon provide fragrant spires of soft pale pink bloom. In early spring the evergreen Clematis ‘Armandii’ took the background center stage with its prolific fragrant white blooms.
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 Backlit Clematis welcome you to he checkerboard room.
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 Digitalis ferruginea Gigantea with its stately spires of burnished yellow combines with the pale pink of Lavatera Barnsley with a baby’s breath like lavender cloud provided by Thalictrum delavayi.(Yunnan Meadow Rue or Chinese Meadow Rue).
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 Flower head shapes as well as colour add interest to this garden. There are the Purple whorls of Salvia ‘Purple Rain,’ trumpet shaped mauve and pink jewelled tone blooms of Salpiglossis sinuata (painted tongue), Reddish purple ball shaped flower heads of drumstick allium (Allium sphaerocephalum), long spires of purple-blue blooms of the Agastache, the red-edged, yellow centered flat blooms of the Yarrow - Paprika Achillea millefolium. Texture is added by the lambs ears (stachys) and the Mexican Feather Grass (Stipa tenuissima) The decorative value of the purple red leafed ORACH, or MOUNTAIN SPINACH ( A triplex hortensis) has earned it a place in this border. The integration of vegetables into mixed borders is a trend for 2005.
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 Foliage planting spring/summer Combination of purple sage, Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii, lonicera 'Bagginsins Gold', artemesia, and Stachys byzantina 'Primrose Heron" evergreen vestia from Australia has green/ yellow trumpet bell blooms in April/May. This planting grows in part shade and continues to look good even when the allium and columbine aren't in bloom.
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 Winter planting foliage and colour A winter version of planting euphorbia Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii and neighbouring contorted filbert take center stage, purple sage, lonicera, evergreen vestia from Australia has green yellow trumpet bell blooms in April/May.
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 The classic Clematis Viticella group member Clematis 'Purpurea Plena Elegans', grown since the 16^th century, scrambles through Hydranga aspera. Its double violet-purple flowers echoing the mauve-pink tones of the hydrangea’s lacecap petioles. This combination exemplifies the trends of utilizing monochromatic colour combinations and building upon foliage texture when gardening in 2005.
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 Close up of a summer view of a generous boulevard planting that is designed for year round interest.
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.jpg) Helianthus salicifolius (Narrow Leaf Sunflower) a US native plant that has been promoted by the Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf for its verticality. Here this useful screening plant is providing a wonderful backdrop for a heritage sweetpea with jewel toned pink and violet bicoloured blooms. (very fragrant!)
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 Boulevard plantings have now been extended by neighbour to continue down the street.
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combinationA..jpg) Sanguisorba ‘Tootsi’ forms an ethereal cloud of small burgundy button blooms rising above the red spikes of Persicaria /amplexicaulis/ ‘Firedance.’ On the left is the drought tolerant Digitalis ferruginea‘Gigantea’ with its elegant spire of thimble-shaped yellows flowers with rust accents. right are the pink blooms of *Diascia* 'Elliot's Variety.' The violet purple whorls on the Salvia verticillata Purple Rain contrast with the soft pale yellow of Coreopsis /verticillata/ ‘Moonbeam’ (1992 Plant of the Year) while stipa tenuissima (Mexican Feather Grass) provides movement. The allium seedheads contribute further interest to this Bold European design.
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 Mixed borders which incorporate shrubs such as vibirnum Pink Dawn that were popular during the Edwardian era as well as newly introduced improved plants such as the hydrangeas ‘Limelight’ and ‘Pink Diamond.’ Path made of compacted screenings, edged by mosaics and accented by mosaic pavers. The path was designed to mirror the outline of the bay window.
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 Mosaic Edger closeup - Mosaics made by the creative young woman whose garden this is. Mosaics are a popular trend. They were made of local materials selected to be sympathetic with the Edwardian home. A neighbour has found a similar early 20th century mosaic in the garden of her Edwardian home.
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 Mosaic Paver closeup - Mosaics made by the creative young woman whose garden this is. Mosaics are a popular trend. They were made of local materials selected to be sympathetic with the Edwardian home., A neighbour has found a similar early 20th century mosaic in the garden of her Edwardian home
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 Clematis ‘Brighton Star’ scrambles along a rustic red alder fence Complimentary plantings include a euphorbia with its chartreuse blossoms while nearby the dark foliage of the newly introduced New Zealand alpine type Geranium (Cranesbill) ‘Pink Spice’ contrasts with the soft grey of another New Zealand plant Brachglottis compactus or Senecio compactus. All of these plantings have provided to be very drought tolerant.
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 The towering soft pink blooms of rosa mubabalis (a China rose that dates back to the early 1800’s see Heritage Trend) is echoed by the nearby pink astilbe which is then contrasted by the chartreuse of the euphorbia bloom echoed by the chartreuse of the alchamilla mollis are given a textural context by the felty texture of the stachys.‘ Primrose Heron leaves (which start in spring as a chartreuse-yellow), the evergreen large hellebore leaves and hardy cranesbill germanium’s foliage contrasts with the finer texture of the background euphorbia. This low maintenance combination will maintain interest throughout the year.
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 (Salpiglossis, Salvai venticillata 'Purple Rain' Salipglossis plant combination Salpiglossis sinuata (painted tongue), another classic plant that was a favourite of the Victorians, is combined with salvia. This picture shows the wonderful effect that is achieved by combining specialty annuals such as the salipglossis with perennial plantings. The salvia is a recently introduced variety Salvia verticillata 'Purple Rain' The use of improved varieties of old fashioned classic plants is another trend that is growing strong for 2005.
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Concrete bowl with baby tears.
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An Edwardian home with heritage garden and sculptures.
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The garden owner has made concrete columns and urns, which she used to incorporate verticality into a small garden room. Several of these columns were placed in areas with poor growing conditions.
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