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Perfectly placed growing in a nook next to the hearth on Cleve West\u2019s Centrepoint garden<\/a>, it echoes herb Robert (Geranium robertianum<\/em>), also featured on the garden, with its small typical cranesbill flowers and more gentle sprawling habit. It has perhaps a slightly more impactful, more refined appearance.<\/p>\n
Two\u2019s company in pots<\/h3>\nChelsea gardens are packed with amazing plants<\/a> \u2013 and plant lists picked up from the gardens are often long. But it doesn\u2019t have to be that way. Rosemary Coldstream\u2019s Feels Like Home garden in the Container Garden<\/a> category paired plants perfectly in a series of pots \u2013 each with just two plants in, allowing focussed associations and appreciation. Plants were carefully chosen by Rosemary to reflect her New Zealand heritage. Here\u2019s just two of her arrangements<\/p>\n
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Pachystegia insignis<\/em> \u2013 Marlborough rock daisy, paired with a simple small-leaved shrub.<\/p>\n
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Filling the gaps<\/h3>\n
There aren\u2019t usually that many gaps on a Chelsea garden but where there are, they offer brilliant opportunities.<\/p>\n
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In his garden for Myeloma UK<\/a>, Chris Beardshaw<\/a> added a green tracery to his paving with the creeping Soleirolia soleirolii<\/em> that then swirls around his water feature<\/a> bringing hard landscaping, ornament and planting together.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s more water feature inspiration from Chelsea<\/a><\/p>\n
Simple stars<\/h3>\n
Thinking about planting doesn\u2019t have to be complex \u2013 thoughtful, yes; overwhelming no.<\/p>\n
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The single starry Anemone rivularis<\/em> nestled amid Melica uniflora<\/em> f. albida, <\/em>on Tom Hoblyn<\/a>\u2019s garden for Boodles, was perfection. Tom\u2019s use of the Melica<\/em> with its raindrop-effect inflorescences picked up on his ingenious raindrop water feature.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Choice colour palette<\/h3>\n
Sarah Price\u2019s painterly garden<\/a> had some serene colouring with a masterfully considered colour palette that linked many of the plants and materials in the garden.<\/p>\n
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Here the purple flushed falls of starring Iris<\/em> \u2018Benton Olive\u2019<\/a> were picked up in the purple Linaria maroccana<\/em> \u2018Licilia Azure\u2019. And gently repeated to draw the eye through the garden.<\/p>\n
Listen to Sarah Price talk about her Chelsea garden on our podcast<\/a><\/p>\n
Silver appeal<\/h3>\n
Designer Filippo Dester\u2019s Mediterranean-style for Hamptons and Garden Club London felt light and warm, much of which came from the use of silver foliage, such as Artemisia<\/em> \u2018Powis Castle\u2019 and a fig tree at the back of the garden, helping to bounce the light and create highlights.<\/p>\n
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In this image the architectural, silver foliage of the Cynara cardunculus<\/em> is picked up in the white of the umbellifer Melanoselinum decipiens<\/em> \u2018Black Parsley\u2019, which itself has a tinge of pink that echoes the Acanthus spinosa<\/em>, and in turn links back to the warm pink of the background wall.<\/p>\n
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Chance planting<\/h3>\nBrownfield<\/a>, gravelly, substrate planting was definitely on show, which while we aren\u2019t all being asked to fill our gardens with rubble, does show the potential of chance plantings in places we might previously have ignored \u2013 or equally the need to embrace diverse ideas of gardens as our climate becomes more extreme<\/a> and we search for more shared green spaces in our cities and towns.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s a simple example of the sort of opportunistic, resilient planting that can bring benefits to health, wellbeing and pollinators. In John Davies and Steve Wiliams\u2019s Centre for Mental Health Balance Garden<\/a>, Papaver<\/a> rhoeas<\/em>, purple toadflax Linaria purpurea<\/em>, corn chamomile Anthemis arvensis<\/em>, wild rocket Diplotaxis tenuifolia<\/em> \u2013 gone to seed but the pods can be harvested for a punchy salad crunch \u2013 and the pretty yellow flowers of wild mustard Sinapis arvensis<\/em> prove that tough-grown, weedy choices very much have a place in our future planting choices.<\/p>\n
Head to our dedicated Chelsea Flower Show hub page<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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Planting ideas and trends from Chelsea Flower Show<\/h2>\n