Gold Garden
Winters are really bleak and summers are really harsh at Itchy Palms Gardens. When ever I'm walking around I continually think of what plant or group of plantings could make the place sing.
A lot of people aren’t fond of yellow in the garden when it is thrown in with all the other colours. That's just the general impression I have got over the years. Even though yellow is one of my favourite colours I feel a bit the same.
I decided that if I was going to have yellow I'd go the whole hog. Full on. Our Gold Garden condenses as many shades of gold and yellow in flowers and foliage together as it can so it ends up being rich in every season especially winter. Yellow becomes regal, intriguing and alluring. It is framed in a golden cypress hedge with cathedral style windows in rustic brick 'ruins' lovingly custom made by Paul.
The statue was a gift from my beautiful family I truly adore. She stands in the west corner awaiting all who wander through. Her graceful form is framed by two golden pencil cypress.
The plantings include yellow African daisy, golden diosma, golden gleditsia sunburst, golden cannas with yellow striped leaves, pale yellow gazania and golden green leaved evergreen iris. There is also a yellow banksia rose over an archway at the main entry near the outhouse. Three weeping mulberries studded along the centre of the garden go buttercup yellow before they fall and in the winter. Throughout winter and Spring the yellow/gold jonquils and daffodils glow like beacons in the glume illuminating the pathways.
So when you come to visit Itchy Palms Gardens be well warned. You may need sun glasses before you enter our 'Gold Garden'.