Landscape Diaries: Curb Appeal in East London

Photography by Jim Powell for Gardenista

The Victorian terraces of London Fields, East London, are fairly generously proportioned, with the best front gardens drawing attention to texture, color, buzzing, and movement. Something else that they have in common: they tend to be the work of Izi Glover, garden designer and long-standing local resident.

Tough perennials such as Cenolophium denudatum and Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’ are allies for any laissez-faire gardener.

Yellow and cream Sisyrinchium striatum with its iris-like leaves and daisy-like Erigeron karvinskianus thrive in poor soils and will happily inhabit cracks in paving if given the chance.

Erigeron and grasses around an understated bench, between Japanese quince (Chaenomeles x superba ‘Pink Lady’) and Verbascum ‘Copper Rose’.

Enhancing the pavement while obscuring the downstairs window, Trachelospermum jasminoides.

Plumes of grasses (Anemanthele lessoniana) and a shocking pink duo of Dianthus carthusionarum and Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail. 

Accents of intense color come from Dianthus carthusianorum and, closer to the window, Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail’.

Between the vine-covered railings and the house, persicaria, cotinus and plumes of grasses.

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