House Leeks

Garden Design, Gardening, Leisure time in the garden, Planting, Summer beauty, bedding, bedding schemes, camomile, compost, dry stone walls, glaucous, gravel, grit, hardy, House Leeks, Italian Renaissance, leaves, mint, mulch, ornamental plants, pink flowers, planting schemes, pleasure gardens, pot, Sedum, Sempervivum, soil, sunshine, tarragon, violets

Houseleeks or Sempervivum (meaning live for ever) are succulent ornamental hardy plants that have been used in pleasure gardens since around the thirteenth century. Later during the Italian Renaissance these plants were adopted for use in planting schemes as a solid massed groundcover, which also included camomile, mint, tarragon and violets.

Filling in the gaps

Landscaping, Planting blue-eyed grass, Campanula lactiflora, Dierama pulcherrimum, Erigeron karvinskianus, House Leeks, Mexican Daisy, Sempervivum, Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Thymus serpyllum, Verbena bonariensis

Whenever I plan a planting scheme for a garden, I always try to remember the little hidden places where plants can grow, in the gaps and cracks in walls and paving and steps, and various other places normally ignored or forgotten. When plants want to grow in unusual places in your garden it is a […]