A VERY MIXED BORDER - VIEW FROM GARDEN ROOM

The view of my little garden from the cedar-clad garden room is lovely right now.  We've had more than a week of glorious sun and the plants are lapping it up to the point that today's spot of rain was very welcome.  I love mixed borders, dislike regimented gardens, and want a natural kind of look where the plants seems as if they have just found their position without any help from me. 

I never feel I get it right but all the same, I am quite happy with the way things are looking right now. The sedum (it gets yellow flowers in summer) at the middle bottom of the above image is a wonderful plant for filling gaps.  It just gets on with it with no interference from me, yet it is not invasive. 

Lilacs, ferns, Japanese maples, and garden room

The white anemones are striking in contrast alongside the Heuchera 'licorice', and I love how the pale blue Veronica gentianoides and the purple Polemonium 'Jacob's Ladder' go well with a recently planted row of little violas (off image) which are blue and dark purple: Viola Skippy Sky Blue and Viola wittrockiana 'Blue Blotch' .  Along with the perennials of many kinds there are also the lilacs (syringas) and the Japanese maples Acer palmatum dissectum 'Ornatum' and Acer palmatum 'Katsura', and several clematis are climbing and making fat buds on the fence.

Polemonium and Veronica gentianoides look good together

Veronica gentianoides with the Japanese acer,  Acer palmatum dissectum 'Ornatum',

in the background and the deep red flower of Astrantia major 'Hadspen Blood'

shown on the image's right bottom corner

Anemone sylvestris flower with seed head

Anemone sylvestris flower with interesting seed heads