Slowing Down, Smelling (and Seeing) the Flowers Part 2
The willow outgrew whatever we had imagined it would do very quickly. Pretty soon it had totally cut off access to the next garden. We had choices - one of which was to let the poppy field (as we call it) become a dead-end garden. The other seemed to be to cut down the willow. Then I hit on the idea of cutting an arch into it. I wasn't sure if I could, but a couple hours worth of pruning later - I had an entrance/exit carved into the willow boughs.
But roses seem to like it, and calla lilies and columbine seed about freely - as well as the Lychnis coronaria that seeds about so freely - and even Stachys byzantina which supposedly despises clay and poor drainage flourish here. Last week the alba Meideland roses were so covered in white flowers that you could scarcely see foliage - this week they need a good going over with a whisk broom to get rid of the old, browning blossoms, but are still impressive. And the 'New Dawn' is still blooming bountifully over the arbor, to be joined today by two gorgeous blossoms of the double flowered clematis 'Duchess of Edinburgh.'
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