IN BRIEF
Name Patthana Garden.
What Intensively planted garden, managed organically, with an exciting mix of exotic, unusual and familiar plants.
Where Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
Size Roughly one acre.
Soil Acid.
Climate Temperate to -5ºC, with increasingly dry summers.
Hardiness zone USDA 8.
In the Torc Garden, the newest part of Patthana Garden, with its views of the village church, tulips in shades of pink, red and purple dance through perennials, such as Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Purpurea’, Erysimum ‘Bowles's Mauve’ and Geum Scarlet Tempest (= ‘Macgeu001’). The recently planted sculpted mound creates an immersive seating area that buzzes with insects in summer
KEY TULIPS
1 Tulipa ‘Apricot Delight’
A Darwin hybrid that is a beautiful blend of apricot, pink, salmon and white, paler
