Beyond the Garden Gate, our Hampton Court Flower Show 2010 garden gets it`s first mock-up! Right: Our handmade gate looks great. Hopefully it will stand up on it`s own once it`s in our garden! Above: Our post and rail fence starts it`s life. Insert: What it will look like when it`s finished! Above: Our Mock-up starts with the woodland area over the fence. We use black crates to reflect the different heights in the garden. Some of our favourite plants in this years garden. Left: Spiraea japonica Little Princess. A deciduous shrub with a compact mound forming habit 50-60cm tall, small green leaves. Flowers rose-crimson from July to August. Good hardy, reliable shrub for summer colour. Requires full sun, neutral moist soil. Top right: Astrantia major Roma. A lovely pink Astrantia noted for its floriferous habit 80-100cm tall. Herbaceous perennial preferring moist soils in sun or partial shade. Bottom right: Sedum Purple Emperor. A herbaceous perennial with dark plum purple foliage and dusty pink flowers July to September. 50cm tall. Requires full sun, very tolerant of drought once established.

The plans are in! Our Hampton Court Flower Show 2010 garden begins to take shape! A traditional cottage garden setting with a range of herbaceous perennials. The path leads the viewer down to the woodlands beyond. The first batch of plants are hand picked from our nursery stock. Beyond the Garden Gate - Plant list Herbaceous & Grasses Achillea Red Velvet Actaea simplex Brunette Agapanthus africanus Agapanthus africanus albus Alchemilla mollis Anthemis Sauce Hollandaise Astrantia Abbey Road Astrantia Roma Coreopsi verticillata Moonbeam Coreopsis Ruby Red Cosmos atrosanguinea Delphinium Galahad Delphinium Summer Skies Digitalis mertonensis Echinacea Fatal Attraction Echinacea Harvest Moon Echinacea Sundown Echinacea Tiki Torch Echinacea Tomato Soup Gaura Whirling Butterflies Geranium Rozanne Stachys Humelo Hemerocallis selection Heuchera Berry Smoothy Heuchera Caramel Heuchera Green Spice Heuchera Midnight Rose Heuchera Obsidian Heucherella Sunspot Hydrangea paniculata Kyushu Knautia macedonica Mars Midget Leucanthemum Sonnenschein Liatris spicata Liatris spicata Alba Lupinus yellow Oenothera fruiticosa Fyrverkeri Origanum Compactum Penstemon Huskers Red Penstemon Strawberry and Cream Phlox Chattahoochee Phygelius Funfare Wine Potentilla thurberi Monarchs` Velvet Salvia Hot Lips Salvia Tricolour Sanguisorba officinalis Tanna Scabiosa Butterfly Blue Sedum Purple Emporor Sidalcea Little Princess Stipa arundinacea Verbena bonariensis Veronica Rotfuchs Veronicastrum virg. Album Shrubs Buddleia davidii Pink Delight Hydrangea macrophylla Pink or White Potentilla fruticosa Pink Delight Perovskia Blue Spire Trees Prunus serrula multistem