Seasonal SENSATION
As summer slips away, the light softens and gradually the colours of flowers and foliage throughout the garden at Coton Manor become less strident. ‘The pale colours become almost luminescent in this gentler light,’ says owner Susie Pasley-Tyler. ‘This is when we feel the garden reaches its zenith – it is my favourite moment with so much to see.’ Autumn’s abundance heralds a new cast of flowers – asters and dahlias in gem-like hues, red-hot pokers, ice plants, milky mophead hydrangeas, eupatoriums, coneflowers, salvias, roses in their second flush, and Japanese anemones trembling in the breeze. ‘I think a lot of gardeners have given up on their gardens by now,’ she suggests, ‘and perhaps don’t realise what a rich palette of plants is available, and how much longer things flower later in the season.’
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