\u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nOne garden that leaves little doubt is that of Jopie Koens and Ton Alten. This small garden, squeezed into a corner plot on one of Zeeland\u2019s peninsulas that reach out into the North Sea, has all the elements of a modern Dutch garden.<\/a> Many of these lead back to one, incredibly influential, Dutch garden and landscape designer<\/a>, who dominated the profession for much of the 20th century: Mien Ruys. Her vision was architectural and modern \u2013 definitely post-Bauhaus \u2013 but she was also a lover of flowers and colour.<\/p>\n
Jopie and Ton\u2019s garden is very plant focussed, colourful and relaxed, but two features stand out as being distinctly Mien Ruys: a long block of clipped box, rectangular shapes that all mesh together, and in another part of the garden, an array of box clipped into spheres<\/a> of varying sizes. Both features read as sculptures<\/a> \u2013 exercises in form in themselves, rather than as a structural framework as clipped box might be used in the UK.<\/p>\n

In brief<\/strong><\/p>\n
Garden name<\/strong> De Doolman.\u00a0What<\/strong> Small garden that is home to\u00a0a series of different borders offering a range of characters and colours.\u00a0Where<\/strong> The Netherlands. Size<\/strong> 1,250 square metres. Soil<\/strong> Clay over sand, so well-drained. Climate<\/strong> Cool temperate with\u00a0 a maritime influence. Hardiness zone<\/strong> USDA 9.<\/p>\n
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Read more about the garden below.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nLeading out from the side of their modern house, Jopie and Ton have created a long Hot Border, with uplifting, fiery tones that include Helenium<\/em><\/a> \u2018Sahin\u2019s Early\u2019 and Crocosmia<\/em><\/a> \u2018Lucifer\u2019. Dark purple is a good intensifier for warm colours, provided here by the large leaves of Canna<\/em> \u2018Cleopatra\u2019 and purple foliage of Cotinus<\/a> coggygria<\/em> \u2018Royal Purple\u2019.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe rectangular canal, which you cross to enter the house, creates a feeling of calm in the first area of this small garden, and provides a visual link to the sculptural groupings of box blocks and the pergola<\/a> behind. To the left is the large Front Garden border, with a pink and purple theme that includes Monarda<\/em> \u2018On Parade\u2019, Bistorta amplexicaulis<\/em> <\/a>and Erysimum<\/em><\/a> \u2018Bowles\u2019s Mauve\u2019. In spring this border is full of bulbs (mostly tulips<\/a> and camassias<\/a>) in a similar colour scheme.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nA neat beech<\/a> hedge separates the Hot Border from this cooler mix of planting dominated by the pink spikes of Bistorta amplexicaulis<\/em> \u2018Rowden Gem\u2019 (a one-time Persicaria<\/em><\/a> cultivar raised by John Carter in Devon). In front, Phlox paniculata<\/em> \u2018Blue Paradise\u2019 stands out among the grasses<\/a> that add movement to the border<\/a>, including the steely blue Poa labillardierei<\/em> and Stipa calamagrostis,<\/em> with its feathery panicles and open habit.<\/p>\n
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$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe Hot Border extends out from Jopie and Ton\u2019s house, and is filled with hot colour from the red swords of Crocosmia<\/em> \u2018Lucifer\u2019, yellow umbels of Achillea filipendulina<\/em>, and orange sunflowers<\/a> of Helenium<\/em> \u2018Sahin\u2019s Early Flowerer\u2019. At the front is an unnamed Gaillardia aristata<\/em> hybrid, a short-lived perennial<\/a> daisy<\/a> with multi-coloured flowerheads that, according to Jopie, flowers all summer making it invaluable for long-season impact.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nA Koelreuteria paniculata<\/em> tree that Jopie\u2019s father grew from seed rises out of a bed of cloud-pruned box to create a focal point at the end of the Hot Border. Facing these sculptural box balls, rounded clumps of Pennisetum<\/a> alopecuroides<\/em> \u2018Hameln\u2019 create a rhythm along the path, punctuated by bursts of colour, including the yellow flowers of Heliopsis helianthoides.<\/em><\/p>\n
$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nTon has used the same split grey basalt stone<\/a> for the paths<\/a> throughout the garden to create a sense of \u201cunity and peace\u201d. The planting has also added to this strong sense of visual unity by repeating certain plants throughout the borders. In the Hot Border Ton has used Crocosmia<\/em> \u2018Lucifer\u2019 at intervals and used various grasses, most notably Stipa calamagrostis<\/em>, in several of the borders.<\/p>\n
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$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe Cream and White Border is dominated by a vigorous, long-flowering, white phlox, its name long since forgotten, which Jopie inherited from her parents\u2019 garden. Behind, the feathery flowers of Koenigia<\/em> x fennica<\/em> \u2018Johanneswolke\u2019 (formerly a Persicaria<\/em><\/a>) are very long lasting, although strangely of no interest to pollinators, alongside Calamagrostis<\/em> x acutiflora<\/em> \u2018Overdam\u2019, a subtly variegated relative of the much larger \u2018Karl Foerster\u2019.<\/p>\n
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$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Robert Mabic<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe covered terrace offers an extension to Ton and Jopie\u2019s modern house with outdoor sofas positioned to take advantage of the long, double Hot Border, which leads out from this side of the house. Planters on the terrace include a similar mix of bright colours to raise the spirits, including Tagetes<\/em> \u2018Starfire Mixed\u2019. To the right, the pink flowers of Bistorta<\/a> amplexicaulis<\/em> \u2018Rowden Gem\u2019 stand out against the row of poplars, which create a sense of enclosure for the garden.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n
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