Gradually the centre of the garden is becoming more as we want it. During hot periods it is cool and shady, often catching light breezes that makes it delicious in the midday heat.
Digitalis mertonesis flowers for the first time this year. A soft strawberry pink with flowers that are well over twice the size of Digitalis purpurea our common Foxglove.
Behind this the Heucheras catch early morning sunlight, their light filmy flowers gently moving in the breezes.
Heucheras are terrific plants to grow either in the garden border or as pot plants. Their is a terrific variety to choose from, up to 700. You will find them around many good garden centres with a vast choice of foliage colours to pick from. Some have very elegant showy flowers where as others are understated. Many take shade or light shade which means that hard to fill area that is mostly shady in the garden can easily enriched.
Astilbes are surprisingly tolerant of shade. These that we have planted in the centre garden are subjected to a little more than just partial shade as recommended. They get early morning sun but lose it just before midday. Plenty of organic matter dug into the soil before planting ensures they do not dry out in Summer. We are then rewarded with plumes of colour.
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