Field of dreams

IT’S all about go big or go home.’ Head gardener Andrew Cannell is introducing the new planting at the American Museum & Gardens in Bath, which is epitomised by curving skeins of golden rudbeckia and shimmering stretches of Miscanthus sinensis. The heads of the 6ft-tall Allium ‘Summer Drummer’ march cheerfully through the beds and energise every view. ‘Summer Drummer’ has become a signature plant of what is, rather surprisingly, the first completed British commission for OvS, the prestigious Washington DC-based landscape architects Oehme, van Sweden (OvS).

‘Oh, the alliums!’ wrote lead landscape architect Eric