I’ve been away for a week visiting gardens in Yorkshire, very inspiring and I will probably share my thoughts and images with you soon. I only had time on arriving home to unload my plant acquisitions so I didn’t have a chance to walk round the garden until Friday morning when it was absolutely pouring. …
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Six on Saturday – 13th July 2019 – Boundaries
My six this weekend are all about the boundaries because I am celebrating getting my privacy back. Long term readers of this blog will know that my old neighbours neglected their garden and it was overgrown with a thick barrier of ash and sycamore trees between our two properties which gave me reasonable privacy. When…
Six on Saturday 29th June 2019 – Roses
Its far too hot to spend time in the garden today, the patio thermometer is showing 36C although it is fair to say that is probably a little exaggerated as the thermometer is on the house wall and sitting in the sun – but its hot! However, I did spend a very pleasant hour or…
Six on Saturday – 22nd June 2019
A stunningly beautiful day today; the sun is shining, there is a light breeze and the birds are singing. Well for some of the day but with the sunshine comes the fair weather gardeners and the peace is shattered by the sound of lawn-mowers and strimmers and no doubt later the air will be full…
Six on Saturday – 15th June 2019
I’m late this week as I have been at my Embrodierers Guild meeting so photos had to wait until I got home, and then I had to wait for another heavy rain shower to pass. All of which meant that the plants were a little weather beaten and I was a little soggy by the…
Six on Saturday – 1st June 2019
I can never decide if I like Papaver ‘Patty’s Plum’ or not. The colour of the flower when it first opens is lovely and I can’t resist the tissue like petals but it does fade to a rather miserable brown as it dies. Having said this my two plants of ‘Patty’s Plum’ are groaning with…
Six on Saturday – 25th May 2019
Every so often there are unexpected delights in the garden and this week seems to have delivered more than its fair share. I have grown Tragopodon crocifolius for years, well I have I have grown it, what I actually mean is that I grew it from seed probably around 8 years ago and it has…
Six on Saturday – Returning from Sicily
I’ve been away for just over a week touring Sicily. The weather was very much as we have had in the last few days – low 20s but for Sicily this is much cooler than normal. However, for me, considering we were sightseeing and walking lots the temperature was just about right and I avoided…
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – May 2019
This month the stars of the garden are the various irises and aquilegias. I have always loved Irises of all sorts. My love affair started with bearded irises such as Langport Wren above. Over the years various varieties have come and gone from the garden, mainly due to too much shade, but Langport Wren has…
