Tulips galore at Great Dixter!

Welcome back at Mercurelli's :)

As May approach things are hotting up at fast pace. The iconic RHS Chelsea Flower Show and the exhuberant Chelsea Fringe Festival are around the corner, and I just started a new collaboration with GROW London, which I am very enthusiast about and of which I will tell more in another post. One of the two Twickenham gardens has been completed on perfect schedule and the one in Teddington is on its way.

{Tulips display in the porch}

But you know, a Garden Designer is never arrived and even in a such busy time of the year it is essential to find time for planning, brainstorming and learning. And when your 'learning day' is a day a Great Dixter, side by side with Fergus Garrett... well...there isn't much more you can ask for!

Once there I could not avoid capturing all this colour feast for you!

{Tulip Pots display in the Wall Garden}

{A romantic border in the Wall Garden}

{Myosotis sp, Tulipa, Lunaria annua}

{One of the most well-know Design principles: repetition is the key!}

{Vibrant pots display in front of the Porch}

{Yellow lily-flowered Tulips (Possibly Tulipa 'West Point'), and Blue Myosotis}

{A riot of colours in the Vegetable Garden}

{Scent and vibrant colours for the Orchard Garden}

{Candid Tulipa, Lunaria annua var. albiflora and acid-green Bupleurum in the Long Border}

{View of the Lutyens' circular steps from the Orchard} 

{Tulipa and Myosotis gain, definitively a great combination!}

{A last shot from the Lutyens' Circular Steps before come back home!}

I will be at Great Dixter again this Monday, for a Study Day on Succession Planting, part of the 'KLC Great Dixter Award for Horticulture Award' prize. Please feel free to join me me on Twitter for live photos! 

I wish you a lovely and bright new week, 

Noemi

P.S. Please feel free to pin this fantastic Tulip bonanza! These and many other photos from Great Dixter can be also found on this dedicated Pinterest board.

Happy Easter 2014!!!

Wishing you a Fantastic Easter!

{Photo: Great Dixter Long Border}

May the joy of the Resurrection fills your days, 

your homes and your workplaces! 

(P.S. And Happy BBQs with the Family!)

Noemi

Wordless Friday: Sardinian colours, textures and inspirations!

I hope you will forgive me if, for once, I move the Wordless day post to Friday... 

Since the last post my 'Designer-life' has been a succession of drawings, visits, meetings, talks... 

So much work folks, but soo rewarding!

In all of this, I somehow managed to spend few days in Sardinia, from where my inspiration often come from. These time I did not observe costal landscapes and turquoise waters, but the suburb wildnerness that frame Cagliari, the chief town. I hope you will enjoy its colours and textures as much as I did!

(P.S. Please feel free to Pin and to Leave a Comment! I love reading them!)

{Rusted, Old Gate. A new one woudn't be as charming!}

{An Opuntia and an Asteracea - A Soft/Thorny suggestive combination}

{Wild Cerinthe major - YES, in Sardinia they are already out and YELLOW!}

{An old Fiat 500, an Opuntia and local reed Fence. That's Barraccamanna!}

{One of the many wild cenosis. Simply perfect!}

{A wild/suburb Landscape, few minutes away from Cagliari's Airport}

{Rusted Gate Lock of a vacant plot: which (botanical) secrets will it hide?}

Thanks for stopping by!

I look forward hearing from you!

Noemi