No marathons this weekend has meant I could spend most of my time outside in the garden playing catch-up as best I could (except for Saturday morning when Mike and I had a trip into Rye). I'll start with the front garden as it's really coming to life now and looks pretty even with the swathe of blue plastic and black weed-suppressant matting.
As I walked back from the gate this morning after my run I couldn't resist snapping a few photos as everywhere is burgeoning so quickly. I'm just enjoying a pot of tea before my next sortie into the garden so thought I'd use the time to show some of them.
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| Looking across to the gazebo I remembered that the barn roof needs attention - there are so many 'to do' jobs on our list! The Cardoons (with the big silvery leaves near the hedge) have trebled in size and should look magnificent this Summer |
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| Coming round the bend there are Geums and Tiarellas flowering |
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| The Rhododendrons are looking stunning and are smothered in bees and hoverflies |
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| Looking back across that bed you can see how I've allowed some self-seeded orange poppies to stay as they contrast beautifully with the dark leaves of the Heuchera |
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| They mix in well with the deep blue and purple Aquilegias and the shocking pink of the Rhododendron |
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| They are so vibrant and look fabulous in all stages of development |
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| As they age their petals go all crinkly and then they develop beautiful seedpods which you can shake around like a salt cellar to get more plants the next year |
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| The gravel garden needs some serious work in the autumn as everything has grown so well it needs dividing again |
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| You may have noticed that I like dark leaves against acid yellow/green a combination I use throughout the front garden - in the foreground are the red stems of Lysimachia 'firecracker (which has acid yellow flowers later in the year) with a bright yellow grass behind it and then more dark red leaves of a Berberis behind |
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| This beautiful iris is coming into flower in the gravel but I just cannot remember its name so will have to edit this later when/if I remember |
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| The dark-leaved Phormium tenax has trebled in size since I planted it just 2 years ago! |
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| In the middle of the photo above you can see the bright lime-green leaves of Hakonechloa macra Aureola which really come to life at this time of year |
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| You're never far away from a duck in our garden! That's a Sedum cascading down the wall. |
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| A closer view of the Cardoon leaves which are already higher than my waist |
There is so much work to do along either side of the path that I'm ignoring it for now - due to the excessively wet Winter we have lost various plants from either one side or the other. Not in itself a huge problem as that's what gardening is all about and you expect some losses. However, I planted everything in pairs so that they mirrored eachother and now they don't. Humph! Plus the gazebo needs a good clean my mirror needs to come out of storage, the table and chairs need cleaning, the steps need power-washing etc etc etc.............
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Right, I've finished my tea so I'm off out again. I'm very busy all next week and so my marathon updates will probably have to wait - as I've got another 2 next weekend that will be 4 updates to write. Oh crikey!
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