Here is a garden we did earlier this year. Until some of the flowers get going, the leaf texture is what we concentrated on in the design for early Summer.
There is the frilliness of Fennel, the fleshiness of Canna Lillies, the bright orange and yellow of Heleniums and Hemmerocalis, the silver of Artemesia and Cynara and the purple of Lobelia ‘Queen Victoria’ and a Black Adder Phormium.
With a mixture of exotics plus traditional plants like Fennel a Perennial Design can really be a woven tapestry of shapes and colours.
