06/10/2026
A garden shouldn’t have just one best season. 🍂❄️🌱☀️
Our New Beginnings: Church Barn project was photographed throughout all four seasons, allowing us to see the same landscape continually changing.
Here are 10 plants we love for the way they bring seasonal interest, texture, movement and structure throughout the year:
1. Aster cordifolius ‘Little Carlow’ - soft clouds of late-season blue flowers.
2. Calamagrostis × acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ - strong vertical form and lasting seedheads.
3. Sesleria autumnalis - fine texture and fresh green foliage.
4. Sanguisorba ‘Cangshan Cranberry’ - elegant flower spikes and gentle movement.
5. Phlomis russeliana - architectural form and sculptural dried flower heads.
6. Sporobolus heterolepis - airy movement and beautiful autumn colour.
7. Stipa ichu - light, feathery texture and movement in the wind.
8. Sedum ‘José Aubergine’ - dark foliage and rich late-summer flowers.
9. Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ - a long flowering season and upright blue-purple blooms.
10. Verbena hastata - slender flower spikes, vertical structure and long seasonal interest.
In winter, the planting becomes quieter and the underlying structure of the garden comes to the fore.
For us, planting is never about creating one perfect moment. It is about considering how different layers emerge, disappear and take over from one another as the seasons change.
Over the next few posts, we’ll look more closely at how we design with seasonality - from planning spring interest in autumn to leaving seedheads standing through winter.
A garden is never static, and that constant change is part of what makes it so interesting. 🌿
📸🌿 Alister Thorpe
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🌿🌿 Leon Horticultural Design and Maintenance
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