Amateur Gardening – 24 August 2019

Owners:

Ian and Daphne

Beaumont

Address:

The Old House,

Honington,

Shipston-on-Stour,

Warwickshire

CV36 5AA

Garden size: One-third of an acre

Month visited: June

Aspect: East facing

Soil: Neutral clay

Special features: Structured

cottage garden formally laid out

with box hedging and a small

fountain and informally planted

Opens for the NGS: As one of

the Honington gardens.

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Combine the a fountain and low box hedge with

exuberant planting. The ghostly white bark of a

silver birch creates a year-round focal point

Meet the gardeners

Bring a wall to life by growing a pyracantha up it. This
spiky shrub produces clusters of frothy white flowers
followed by berries that birds love

Use love-in-a-mist

(Nigella damascena)

for gorgeous blue

flowers surrounded

by feathery green

foliage, followed

by architectural

seedheads