Seasons of the year, the Ophiopogon Nigrescence and Acorus Hakura Nishiki are two lovely plants that go so well together, the upright arching leaves of the Ophiopogon are a very good foil for the spiral fan shaped Acorus. One of my own particular favourites in the garden as well as in a pot is the Stipa Arundinacea (or Pheasant Tail grass). It has a wonderful Ophiopogon Nigrescence and colour in the summer, autumn Acorus Hakura Nishiki are two and winter with the gently lovely plants that go so well flowing flowers and seed heads together looking particularly fine with a slight breeze. I like to leave all the pot, then why not consider a seed heads on my plants Marram, these strident grasses throughout the winter to feed with their steel blue like the birds and my resident field colouring look quite wonderful mice, who incidentally live under on their own in a contrasting one of my large Belfast sinks in pot. These grasses can quite the garden. overtake smaller gardens if not There are many, many more kept in check so they are best displayed in a large pot and give grasses, too numerous to mention, that adapt brilliantly to an added bonus of being pots but please ask us when you evergreen. visit the Fairs and we will be so Even in your darkest corners pleased to help in anyway. this colourful pot of Carex Now for the 2016 Season, as Chocolate catches what light it many of you may know by can to shine and shimmer its way through the dullest of days. reading some of my past articles A very easy sedge to grow, all it for the Newsletter and our requires is a good comb through information leaflet, we have, for in the spring to get rid of any of the last couple of years, been trialling pond marginals in our the dead leaves and it will two trial ponds and I am bounce back as good as new. delighted to say that we will be Again a lovely evergreen offering a selection of pond specimen for your pots. marginals including Carex For a smaller pot of contrasting Riparia Variegated, Juncus Elk grasses, again evergreen, Blue, Juncus Pallidus, Glyceria especially useful in winter time Maxima variegata, Equisetum to when you may not have much name but a few. I must say colour in your garden, you have that these trial ponds have the black and lime yellow increased our wildlife population colouring throughout all the considerably, not just frogs,
toads, newts etc. but many species of insects and dragonflies.
Pheasant Tail grass has a wonderful colour in the summer, autumn and winter
Emerging dragonfly on scouring rush
You can meet Jacqueline and the rest of the Architectural Impact team at: Battlefield 1403 26 M arch, Bodenham Arboretum 16 Apr, Weston Park 1 & 2 May, British Ironwork Centre 15 May, Middleton Hall 22 June, Hodnet Hall 4 & 5 June, Whittington Castle 26 June and Sugnall Walled Garden 3 July. 18