2020-02-14T13:30:01+00:00By Paramount Plants|Garden Designers Column, Ornamental Grasses|
Using New Zealand Flax in the Garden Phormiums or the New Zealand Flax Phormium Tenax is a very useful architectural plant to add colour and structure to any garden. Let’s look at some ways to use it in the garden or patio. Phormiums – Using New Zealand Flax in [...]
2021-02-25T14:00:33+00:00By Paramount Plants|Topiary|
Photinia Red Robin Topiary and Hedging Plants Photinia Red Robin is a very popular evergreen shrub and has many uses in the garden. It is sold either as an ornamental shrub, as hedging, as a tall tree for evergreen screening or shaped as topiary. Photinia Shrubs for Hedging [...]
2019-08-08T09:27:51+01:00By Paramount Plants|Tree Ferns and Ferns|
DICKSONIA ANTARCTICA – TASMANIAN TREE FERNS Probably the most popular and best-selling exotic looking plant of recent years has been the Tree Fern – Dicksonia Antarctica. Also known as the “Manfern”, “Soft” or Tasmanian Tree Fern. A few decades ago it was only to be seen in Cornish gardens but with [...]
2024-02-07T17:33:05+00:00By Paramount Plants|Garden Designers Column|
Working with Architectural Plants for the Hardy Tropical Garden by Myles Challis If you want to create an exotic or tropical effect in the garden then there are some essential architectural plants with tropical allure that you will need to achieve this. Most are adaptable when it comes to sun or [...]
2019-08-08T09:00:26+01:00By Paramount Plants|Flowering Plants|
Updated for 2016 It’s still cold outside but gradually we are starting to feel the start of Spring An unusual flowering and scented plant for early Spring is the Witchhazel – Hamamelis Mollis. The spidery deep yellow flowers cover the bare branches of this shrub from December until late March [...]
2019-08-08T08:55:49+01:00By Paramount Plants|Garden Designers Column|
Introduction to my blogs by Myles Challis – Garden Designer When I staged my first Show Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 1986, incidentally the first garden of its kind to be shown at the Chelsea Flower Show, it was met with a certain amount of bewilderment. No-one [...]
