The dead grass bits cover the as-yet bare patch where the giant banana grove will emerge shortly. So you have to imagine that a giant banana grove is part of the picture... That's a grape on the arbour, and a fig tree's bare gray branches to the right.
This is another view (fig branches on the left/damaged Hebes in the foreground), extending to the other garden bed beyond the banana grove and the dividing pathway. I'll be rearranging that bed this coming week.
So here's the garden make-over, still at a stage where you have to play "Imagine With Me"...
- Stepping stones rearranged in an arch around banana grove and aligned with steps.
- English bluebells removed (save that errant patch right next to the patio...??) and transplanted to a no-man's-land around the side of the house.
- Lavender transplanted in an arch around the stones.
- Dutch iris from elsewhere in garden transplanted to pocket bed between stones/lavender.
See photo below for different angle...
- Three Hebe ochracea 'James Stirling' (the bronzy-gold-green whipchord hebe, which remains the hardiest and most un-hebe-like cultivar) are now grouped just to the left of the lavender-arch.
- Brilliant orange Asian lilies transplanted in front of the hebe, divided from two pots on the deck.
- Deep blue Siberian iris/Iris sibirica divided from one large patch into a swath in front of the upright grass/Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster', also divided and extended into a swath sweeping around the Magnolia grandiflora 'Little Gem' and Choisya ternata 'Aztec Pearl' just outside the picture frame on the left.
So this was fun, and I've saved bits of the perennials to work into the layout on the other side of the pathway. The oranges/bronzes/blues should "pop" together, and the overall shapes of the foundation plantings frame the focal points (banana/fig/magnolia) in a new, pleeeaaasing way (I feel very British when I say that. I'm not British.)
I'll post pics when everything flushes later in the season.
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