lizzymaxia:

Creating a garden starts as an interest and soon becomes a lifetime’s obsession. One that can be engaged on a moment’s notice, by simply stepping outside.
How do we make a garden? How do we build a color palette? How do we create depth and texture? How do we keep interest from April to October? Well, we start with these stunning foxgloves and these alliums. And run to these camas, and dahlias, so colorful, it hurts your eyes and these gloriously purple salvias that go on flowering until the frost claims them. Then the verbascum and the evening primrose, and those deliciously green shuttlecock ferns. Look, clambering, climbing clamatis. Sweet rocket and look, these monkswood, so beautiful and poisonous, they’ll kill a man. That’s an interesting contradiction, isn’t it? That lily, golden splendor. Persicaria. Nicotiana. Hollyhocks. The pogonias. Magnificent agapanthus. And well, the list is endless. It’s a world of beautifully ordered chaos.