New border on the other side.............................

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Well the blog about my antipodean border was well received and many people thought the planting was good, interesting and unusual, it is nice to do something a little different.
As some of the pictures indicate there is a bed on the other side of the path. This gets light and sun all day. I haven’t really stuck to any theme there except for the fact all the plants enjoy a bit of sun – don’t we all.
These statuesque plants certainly do – Pride of Madeira, the Echium Pininana a relative to our native bugloss.

Hopefully these will make it through the Winter and will flower next Summer, they are bi/triennials and grow at a rate of knots over this time. If they enjoy where they are growing they will seed and grow happily.
Other plants I am growing in this border are Clerodendrum bungei. This is a young plant and I am keeping my fingers crossed this Winter, I have laid down a pretty thick bark mulch which should protect the roots. The plants have dark green leaves, purple stems and lovely pink pom-pom flowers which sit on a rosette of leaves

This little beauty is a very rare species of Cistus Argentus. It was bred in Ventnor Botanical Gardens and is called Ventnorensis ‘Mr Stripey’. Spritz has another one which I gave her as a gift when I went to her open garden day. The only place you can buy it is Ventnor Botanics on the Isle of Wight.

I have several of these growing along the edges of the border, Pink Erigerons

These are different views of the border

• 14 Nov, 2009
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