Friday 15 June 2018

I love my garden - and a movable feast


I have been enjoying my garden this summer.  It's frustrating because I can't get out there and garden 8 hours a day which is what I really need to do to get totally on top of it before the end of summer/sunshine, but hopefully in a couple of weeks I shall be able to garden when I want again - AND go for walks again.

Anyway, I have managed a bit of pottering, mask on, Haymax balm round nose etc and a hat on to keep the worst of the pollen away.  I have also been inside looking out, and thinking that the "stone garden" - the right hand side where the wildlife pond and the rockery are, and which has a slate slabs and chippings base, was looking very empty now the Aquilegias had gone over (v. quickly this year too, due to the heat).  Then I thought, well, I have LOTS of things in planters, and they are a movable feast, so I have been reconfiguring the area, and putting roses where they will make an impact, with a view to planting them in their new situations, and giving that side a totally different look.  My garden has been reinvented a lot down the years, and this week I have the "move-its" again!



The first rose to get moved was the splendid Tess of the D'Urbervilles, who now brightens the corner of the bay window.  I'm not sure I can plant her there without some industrial digging, but I will see what I can manage.  Until this spring, this corner was absolutely PACKED with Monbretia corms about 6" deep, and then I got ruthless . . .  A couple of little plantings and it is looking pretty.  


You will have to ignore the pile of cut down Aquilegias in the middle there, but I like the way the Delphiniums almost glow against the dark backdrop - they really draw the eye to the back of the garden.  The white rose left is Lichfield Angel (not Cathedral as I wrote the other day).  I think that will be planted there in due course.



View from the pathway across the same area.  Zepherin Drouhin, on her support, has been joined by a big Lidl Salvia, and two Lupins, plus the two rescued Hollyhocks which won't do anything until next year now.  The pot behind them has a bright pink Clove Scented Pink which exactly matches ZD.  The blue pot on the right hand side front of the wall has the little arching Fuschia I got from the Nursery on Tuesday. I can't remember if the Pinks with  it are white or pink, but  'twill look pretty anyway.


Mother and son - Miffy broke into a run when she saw me, obviously thinking "food", whilst her son, Little Whale,  was doing a Perambulation of the garden to see what I had been up to.

Right, this won't do.  My bed is calling me, and let's hope I can sleep better - I had another 3 1/2 hour night on Wednesday and was so dizzy all day long afterwards.  Stepping down off the steroids now, so fingers crossed I will be ok after.

12 comments:

  1. Your garden is glorious, it is a real garden rather than a manicured collection of plants. I hope that you manage to keep the pollen at bay.

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    1. Thank you Pam. It has its moments! Pollen levels lower today (Medium now) thank heavens, so I am hoping to be mending soon.

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  2. I love your garden and your roses.

    Have a great weekend ~ FlowerLady

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    1. Thank you Lorraine, this year so do I! The last two years have been very frustrating when I couldn't get out and get it sorted, due to awful wet summers and I was on the point of signing up for somewhere with just a concrete yard next time - till we viewed a house with a concrete yard and I realized the error of my plan! I am a gardener at heart after all.

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  3. Beautiful garden BB and I especially love the pink rose in the first photo.

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    1. The pale pink one is Albertine Lou - one of the first roses I planted here, if not THE first. A penpal had one over her cottage door and it sounded so lovely. Glad you like the garden.

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  4. I think we would both be totally lost without a garden

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    1. I agree - need to have it a bit more smaller next time and I will grow most of my veg in tubs, as it's so much easier that way, and I am the only veg eater now the kids have left home.

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  5. Your garden looks so very beautiful and the photos are lovely. I do hope you start sleeping better soon.

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    1. Thank you RR. It brings me much pleasure. The sleeping - could have slept and slept today, but that's another story. I went 24 hours in between sleeps though, on top of other bad nights, so will be glad when it is July!!!

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  6. Your roses are wonderful. I love the one trying to get in the window.

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  7. hart - That's Tess! I rather think she will stay in that position too. Glad you love the roses - they are bringing me so much pleasure at the moment.

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