Chatsworth rock garden, Tom Stuart-Smith

Check out the amazing replanting of the rock garden at Chatsworth by Tom Stuart-Smith. It is fabulous to see herbaceous perennials used en masse in such a theatrical, and dramatically vertical, setting. We’re used to seeing them in an undulating plateau, in emulation of their (largely) meadow, prairie or steppe setting-of-origin. But it turns out they’re also very effective against a steep and deliberately rock-bound background.

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