{"id":4551,"date":"2022-02-02T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardensillustrated.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2022-02-15T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T15:26:20","slug":"spring-border-a-planting-plan-by-designer-sarah-price","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/rss_feed\/spring-border-a-planting-plan-by-designer-sarah-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring border: a planting plan by designer Sarah Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By alyshurn\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 02 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Can I admit to having found it difficult to design this spring border? Without a given context, my list of possible spring plants<\/a> and planting combinations has spiralled uncontrolled. In an effort to curb my enthusiasm and fix a scene, I\u2019ve chosen to draw inspiration from my most impressionable and earliest memories of spring.<\/p>\n

These, rather predictably, have come from the secret depths of a somewhat neglected woodland garden. Here I discovered congested clumps of snowdrops<\/a>, and later, pure white wood anemones<\/a>, nestled amid elegant old forms of pheasant\u2019s eye narcissus.<\/p>\n

I marvelled at how the wood anemones, with their delicate flowers and fragile, divided leaves, had managed to run through the vigorous celandine to colonise even the tiniest of gaps within the old trunks of neighbouring royal ferns<\/a>. I wondered if it was the anemone or the gardener that had been so clever, later realising that of course it must be the anemone.<\/p>\n

When I design planting schemes, I think of the plant compositions in layers, which I\u2019ll sketch out loosely, mapping the height and habit of the plants.