Great Dixter was never planted to behave. Five oversized blooms scatter across a pale field, no two coloured alike, their ink-black centres pulling the eye from petal to petal.

• Five oversized blooms: each in its own colour combination
• Ink-black centres: gathered in silk for depth
• Wool and silk: shaped in Jaipur, a pale wool ground with silk accents
• Generous scale: made to be read from across a room
• Best placed: painterly beneath a Georgian cornice, the only colour needed beneath bare concrete