June

Mid July

May 2015

Start of April 2015

Daffodils out the front are just about over.

The hellebores are looking good.  The snowdrops I planted last year really did very little, I saw only one!  The leaves of others were there.  Maybe they need another year to settle in.

Camellia hasn't been hit by the frost so much this year.

Anemone Blanda looking good but almost being threatened by the forget me nots. 

The alliums I planted last year are coming up.  Also some others further along the border.

End of October

Amazingly the primroses are still flowering. I wonder if that means we won't have any flowers in the spring? It has been unseasonally warm, over 20C this week 

Clematis second burst

Roses another flush

Can't remember what this is but it has been flowering Jon stop with these tiny white flowers

Dead headed the Hebe and the snapdragons and it has paid off

End of September

Planted alliums here

And here

And here

Autumn pots still looking good but aster is not flowering

Potentilla

Weeded this flower bed, Cistus and sedum have taken nicely this year.  I have had to do a lot of watering as the end of September has been quite dry.

Rose and honeysuckle, and the anemones flowering well ( they did nothing last year)

The Cotinus needs cutting right back

End of August

Took photos in July and then deleted them!

Good things this Summer:

- not too dry although it was hot in July

- beds next to the patio filled out and looked good, syssirinchium had a second flush of flowers

- lilies in the pot flowered nicely end of July

- two pink bush roses at the far end of the garden put on some growth and flowered

Bad things this Summer

- guinea pigs were back here temporarily while Sian and Will went to Brazil, and they left a hideous pattern of eaten patches on the lawn

- the new roses up against the fence didn't get quite enough watering

- the attractive blue flowered weed went bezerk and invaded every border 

- the scabious I ordered online turned out to be tiny plugs which were too weak to stand up and all 5 plants have been leggy and pretty useless.  There were also about 50 other plugs of various perennials but I didn't have anywhere or any time to pot them on so I put them out as they were and I think only about 2 campanula may have survived. At least they were free. 

- whatever was eating the clematis in the border by the fence went on to eat the Salvia and the red currant bush.

So this week I have

- bought three new pots and planted them up with Autumn colour

i.e. Hebe Addenda mix, a lime heuchera (Lime Marmalade), a red heuchera, a purple viola and a lime trailing Lysimachia  (Lysimachia nummularia Aurea) in one pot, then in another there is a purple Aster, pale yellow antirrhinum (Floral Showers Yellow), some purple violas, and a cyclamen (Miracle White).  The other pot had a well established ivy and a nearly dead rose which I have taken out and just popped in a left over viola.

-  There is also a new pot with a small rosemary plant (pink Rosmarinus Officinalis)

- I have treated the hideously prolific blue flowered weed with glyphosate or dug it up

The end of the lilies

A pennisetum Hamelin I just put in

I had to do a lot of weeding here because what I thought was foxglove turned out to be the blue flowered thug of a weed.  Also the aquilegia and forget me nots had taken over.

The hazel which had been cut right back when we put in the new shed has made a good amount of regrowth. Also there is a good flush of berries on what I think may be a kind of cotoneaster. Note the lush foliage of the blue flowered weed, which I have now treated with glyphosate.