Mary Ann Van Berlo has been gardening on this 2.4-acre riverfront lot since fall 2012. The yard was still a construction site when she moved in, so all the gardens were installed after that.
Ready to mingle: Scrambling plants to weave colour throughout your garden
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As gardeners, most of us are familiar with ramblers and climbers, that hugely diverse group of ornamental plants that we rely upon to clamber decoratively up walls and over trellises, pergolas, gazebos and other decorative garden structures as well as through established trees and shrubs. Much less celebrated but every bit as useful are what I like to call “minglers”, their much smaller equivalents.
If the summer border was a party, these scrambling species are the gregarious guests that love to socialise, making new friends with ease. Indispensable in the flower garden, they’ll prettily thread their way through neighbouring plants, their lax, loose growth habit allowing them to gently weave their stems through a border without ever looking out of place.
Classic examples include varieties of the hardy geranium or cranesbill, many of which are ideal for this purpose. Resilient, reliable and easy to grow, these slug-proof herbaceous perennials form loose, low mounds of foliage from which their flowers appear in profusion in early summer, in some cases for many months.
Geranium “Rozanne”, the violet-blue, exceptionally long-flowering stalwart of many an Irish summer garden, immediately comes to mind, as does its close relative, Geranium “Anne Folkard”, which produces clouds of black-eyed, magenta flowers from June until October. Others — there are so many garden-worthy varieties — include the pale lilac-pink Geranium “Mavis Simpson”, which was first discovered as a chance seedling growing in Kew gardens in the UK, and the lavender — blue and white Geranium wallichianum “Buxton’s Variety”. More compact varieties of perennial geranium that behave similarly include the purple-pink flowering Geranium cinereum “Ballerina”,
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