Another month has passed and for me, as a gardener, it has been a bit of a non-event but for the garden with the changing seasons nothing stays still. Gardening time is now limited to weekends due to the nights moving in and over the last few weeks there has been strong winds, rain, and…
Category: My Garden
Early Autumn in the Front Garden
When I posted at the end of September I included a photo of the front garden, which I rarely post pictures of. One of my readers suggested that I post more often on the front garden as it looks interesting so here you go. It is timely as the planting in the front garden was…
End of Month View – September 2018
I do enjoy this time of year as much as I enjoy Spring. I enjoy tidying up in the garden, because of the sense of achievement you get, and then there is the bulb planting with promise of Spring. I should have taken the photo first thing before the sun came round I realised this…
Safely stored away
A bit of a panic today when I saw that temperatures might go down to 3C tonight and tomorrow night. Whilst I had started to move some of my tender plants under cover a few weeks ago the job was far from complete. I had been putting it off partly due to the hefting of…
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – Sept 2018
The Tithonia are the stars of the Big Border at the moment. I am really pleased with them having grown them from seed. They were planting out just before the heat wave and then just sat there until the heatwave broke. They have quickly put on growth and are now flowering their socks off. I…
End of Month View – August 2018
The garden is looking a lot fresher since now we have had a couple of weeks of more changeable weather, with cooler temperatures and lots of rain. The ferns either side of the bench were so desiccated by the heat that I cut them back hard sometime in July and now here we are with…
A good clean up
I generally have little interest in gardening in August, its normally too hot for me and I think I’m just waiting for Autumn to start appearing round the corner, one of my two favourite months. This year I’ve been even worse given the heat wave we have endured since May. However, apart from a bit…
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – August 2018
It seems I have a growing collection of Agapanthus in the garden more by luck than design. It probably is because I have a weakness for all bulbs and at this time of year its seems to be either Agapanthus or Crocosmia. Over recent years they have been moved to the big border which is…
End of Month View – July 2018
2018 2009 I write this end of month post with a sense of relief as July seems to have been a very long and dry month. We finally had rain on Friday after something like 6-8 weeks with only a small downpour one day. The rain started on Friday and has been off and on…
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – July 2018
When I started taking photos in the garden this morning it didn’t feel as though there was a lot in flower. My garden feels like it is in a bit of a lull between early summer and late summer which I am sure the lack of rain for the last month hasn’t helped. The roses…
