Apple Tree Border

I took this photograph of the Apple Tree border in the spring of the year 2003. Things are forever changing in this garden - I can't decide whether it should be shrubby or flowery!

There are large clumps of beautifully mature hostas in here, plus groups of daffodils which shine in spring. I've tried edging the corner with Iris Japonica, growing it in a curve underneath the cream and green flax, only to rip it all out. I can't settle on the feel of this garden at all.

busy border in spring 2003

The Apple trees themselves don't seem to notice - they keep on growing, with their resident Moonlight roses scscrambling up up and away. This year I missed all the apples - I was away for ten days, and on my return the birds had cleaned up all the fruit. Oops!

Flower Colour

In the year 1998 the border was full of flower colour - it was a relatively sunny space, and the plants in the middle of the slope (a flax, a miscanthus and several pseudopanaxes) were smallish. This photograph shows the plantings in the Apple Tree Border in the summer of 1998. The tall plants with fat green leaves are Nicotiana Sylvestris, and the flax is the variety Cream Delight.

busy border in summer 1998

That big clump of blue leafed hostas in the middle of the picture is well overdue for dividing.