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About 4 Piermont Green
A small – low maintenance – formal front garden, on a triangular Green, encloses an early flowering substantial camellia and and the start of a Japanese cloud-pruned olive tree. Roses line each side. At the rear, there’s a more relaxed feel to this upside-down-L-shaped garden. The outside dining courtyard has a Mediterranean feel with strong red perlagoniums dominating. A Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii’ and a young but productive mulberry make a definite statement as they extend their branches across the diminishing lawn. The foxglove tree, Paulownia Tomentosa has delicate mauve spring flowers. A crescent shaped ‘wild’ corner on the lawn offers interest through the year from early bulbs to late rose hips.
Framed by a Rosa mutabilis on a ancient wall, the established gravel garden is filled with easy care tall plants: with Molinia ‘Transparent’ and Crambe maritima and a colour palette of purple, crimsons and glaucous blues and is, thankfully, low maintenance. The pretty mallow Althea cannabina, will by hhigh summer seem intent on reaching for the sky and grows taller each year. Topping 8ft last year in late summer.
In the white border (with self seeded blue splashes) Crambe cordifolia fills tthe space tower over white dicentra and perennial honesty, in June, while in late summer Hydrangea Annabelle attempts to take over the universe. White roses have a second flowering.
A shady ‘edible’ corner is home to fig, apricot, plum and lemon trees, while a veritable plantation of banana trees sometimes manages to produce ‘hands’ of small bananas which would be bigger- and edible – if we had hotter autumns!
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