Summer Bedding 2005 - Palm House Terrace

This year’s bedding schemes have been inspired by Kew’s Gardens of Glass festival.

Bedding designed by Steve Tucker

Steve has worked at Kew for 15 years and is responsible for all the seasonal planting areas around the Palm House and the Broad Walk.

Passion

CONCEPT: “The theme of this display is colour and people’s response to different colours. Red and yellow are the main components.”

Red - a prominent colour commonly associated with passion; it could represent love, hate or envy.
Yellow - has an uplifting and welcoming aura. It attracts attention even in dull weather.
Black - acts as a good contrast, it works well with any colour in the garden. Although it is often linked with mourning, evil and depressive thoughts, the red and yellow counteract its sobriety.”

Key plants

Dahlia - This is Bishop of Llandaff, my favourite dahlia. What a colour!
Bidens
Perilla

See pdf of original planting plan 44KB

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Gardens of glass: Chihuly at Kew