The Garden of Magical Childhood - Gardenista
We are clearing a patch of garden which has become overrun and it will be her patch. For a child, they are all value-added, plants you can play with or eat. Photographs by Kendra Wilson. The best/worst moment in the life cycle of a dandelion depending on whether you are a child or a grownup. Bluebells are on my daughter’s list of top five plants because they are shaped like bells and fairies live in them. The double hit of color and scent is transcending and if fairies live in the flowers, then all the better. When the toys are not cleared away. The tree house made out of old pieces of wood, the space hopper and the ancient teddies certainly took me back to west London in the ’70s and would have struck a chord with most people who had had gardens as children, during any era since the 1950s. The Garden of Magical Childhood was down an alley of gold medal-winning gardens at Chelsea. Tucked away in a wooded area with birds singing, its location added to the atmosphere of the garden. Marbles in the flower beds. Galium Odoratum is $29.95 for three plants from White Flower Farm. Another informal and respectable plant which appeals to children and adults alike, with its spheres of acid green, is the guelder rose or Viburnum opulus. Children aren’t the only people who call viburnums “snowball bushes.” A Viburnum Opulus ‘Roseum’ Snowball is $39.59 from Grimm’s Garden. Foxgloves and geum (shown here: G. ‘totally tangerine’). Meadow buttercup and greater stitchwort (Stellaria holostea).