I love the Eden Project. I have visited it many times over the years. Reading the book about the making of Eden and the visionary people behind it made me feel that anything is possible if you believe it it and work really hard to achieve it. The overall design is breathtaking. But is not just the mind boggling scale of the whole project whose external design motto was "Picasso meets the Aztecs" and the large structures such as the famous biomes which caught my eye, it is the smaller intimate spaces with striking and innovative plant combinations I enjoy most: a field with hundreds of sparkler like alliums, interspersed with silver leaved plants, a large border full of Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing', a white spring border with foxglove spires with the biomes looming behind a hornbeam hedge. I like the long steps leading to the ice rink tent lined with pleached Platanus acerifolia underplanted with frothy purple cow parsley and lady's mantle. The biomes are beautiful at any time of the year. This month's show plant was the apricot torch ginger for me. Go and see it. It is difficult to beat the exuberant beauty of Cornwall in late spring.
