Adrian and Ingrid both wanted to be involved in the plant shopping, so we ended up with perhaps a less coherent planting than I usually do. I picked some, Adrian picked some, Ingrid picked some… And some of the plants I had in mind were out of stock at Ulriksdal, so I had to replace them.

Ingrid helped me with the grouping and layout, and then we went back to get more ground cover plants to fill in the gaps.

I’ve always wanted a hellebore in the garden, and now circumstances came together to give me one: I have a shade planting that I’ll be passing daily – and the plant nursery was advertising large, home-grown hellebores.