The Seaward Steps Back
Edging the steps down the slope on the seaward side I grow a diverse range of plants
1 Lathyrus vernus, a self-sower. Comes also in pink. With Helleborus lividus ssp corsicus
2 Dipsacus sativus - biennial, a self-sower too
3 Good as an everlasting flower
4 Euonymus planipes. The red fruits with there bright orange seeds hanging down like little bells where the first wonder of nature, taking my fancy as a child. Those decided my career.
5 Spiraea 'Goldmound' - later with pink flowers
6 In the shadow at the other side of the steps in a  little crevice facing north thrives Haberlea rhodopensis 'Virginalis'  and also Ramonda myconi. These two are interesting to sow and are still with me after many years, flowering well.
7 Pleione limprichtii . It was in fashion for a while among the Swedish garden amateurs to grow Pleione out of doors. My own remained only a few years.
8 The plantsman Svante Andreasson in Kinna was the one, who tempted his gardenfriends to grow Pleione. Here a patch of his "field of orchids".
9 Dodecatheon meadia - of the Primula family is easy to sow. be aware, you can get an inferior strain, though.
10 Shooting stars
11 Calceolaria biflora - easy to sow, but stays with me only for a few years at a time.
12 Polygala chamaebuxus 'Loibl' - tricky.
13 Gaultheria miqueliana - spreading well. Ericaceae-family.
14 My grand-daughter Tove  pruning the Taxus x media. It was growing too wide and had to be tamed.
15 Seeing Tropaeolum speciosum - the flame creeper - in the Taxus-hedge at Hidcote, I sowed this one and had it glowing for a few years. Mostly popping up at places of its own choice
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Created : 2 May 2002 Last update : 18 March 2010	©Vera Gade, Norrkoping, Sweden 2001-2010 File: Vera_Garden_Seaward_Steps.htm