Perfect Pairings
After a lifetime spent gardening, Anna Pavord has reworked her 2001 classic, Plant Partners. In its new incarnation as The Seasonal Gardener, the book presents favourite plants with companions to make them sing, be it pale blue Iris ‘Jane Phillips’, open-flowered Rubus ‘Benenden’ or the firework forms of Allium schubertii.
Her Own Words
. I’ve gardened furiously here, and I’ve made a garden far larger than I should have. I plant quite a lot of trees and say, “Look, you know I won’t be here to see you when you’re really doing your stuff but good luck.” I
