Echinacea pallida, the Pale Star of July
Plants — Photo: Unsplash In the heat of late July, when the garden reaches its zenith of colour and buzz, there is one plant that stops the eye not with…
Plants — Photo: Unsplash In the heat of late July, when the garden reaches its zenith of colour and buzz, there is one plant that stops the eye not with…
Plants — Photo: Unsplash It is six o’clock on a July morning, and the garden is still. The light is honeyed, low, catching the seed heads of Sanguisorba officinalis ‘Red…
Plants — Photo: Unsplash At seven on a Sunday morning in late July, the light is already clarified, almost glacial, before the heat takes hold. I am standing at the…
Plants — Photo: Unsplash The light at Great Dixter in late July has a particular weight. It slants through the yew buttresses of the Long Border, catching the fine hairs…
Plants — Photo: Unsplash The first hour of light at Durslade Farm settles not on the ground, but in the air. Piet Oudolf’s perennial meadow holds the morning like a…