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. 

Early June

The sisyrinchium is in full flower and there are quite a few geraniums out. The rosa rugosa is in bloom and is putting on new growth. 

 

The roses at the end if the garden have flopped right over as they did last year. There are fewer foxgloves than last year and there are a variety of shades from white to deep pink. 

The border against the fence is looking very bare. There is a white cistus but it's still very small. The new roses have yet to climb but the honeysuckle is making its way up the fence. The main thing providing height is the fennel. Need to expand this border and put in colour for this time of year. Alliums?  There is also a problem here with something that eats the flowers of the clematis and the violas.

Currants!

 

The clematis are showing off

 Rebecca 

Mrs N Thompson

Another one I don't know the name of

and a lovely chocolatey aquilegia

Middle of May

 There has been a lot of rain over the last couple of weeks and everything is growing like mad in the garden. Next door is wisteria is blooming on our fence. 

I've been out weeding there were a lot of weeds! I had ordered a lot of hardy perennials from gardeners world they came this week, and to my disappointment they were absolutely tiny tiny plugs. The instructions were to pot them on but I've given all my small pots to school so I took the risk of planting them in the garden after all they were free. So I planted some campanula Canterbury bells and some coreopsis golden joy early sunrise, and some scabiosa Beaujolais bonnets. I watered them in and thankfully this week looks like it's going to be mild cloudy and with some showers so hopefully they wont get killed off. 

You can also see that dwarf irises that Sue Sobell gave me which I've only just putting even though she gave me them about a month ago. 

The new rose has begun to come out in bloom

the aquilegia are looking fantastic 

and the clematis Rebecca next to the Cotinus is very effective

And the clematis that I put in last year that didn't really do much are also just starting to flower

The sempervivum are beginning to multiply

And the pots are still fantastic

Eric is finished taking up the remainder of the turf near the narrow flower bed near the house which has a lovely combination of geraniums, aquilegia and chives.

The London Pride looks very dainty next to the last of the forget-me-nots

And the leycesteria foliage is very pretty

May bank holiday and the garden is looking colourful

The grass is lush and the forget me nots are just about to be pulled out, having got quite leggy. The camellia has finished and sadly one cold night has made the rhododendron flowers turn brown but the rest of the plants are zooming up including the honeysuckle I put in earlier this year up against the fence. The two new roses are starting to grow with healthy new foliage.  I can't believe the size of the rose bush in the corner of the garden, it is a pink thorny one which I thought was a small patio rose (Jane Wood gave it to me for my 50th birthday) but this year it's going mad and putting up lots of tall new shoots. Not a patio rose! 

Honeysuckle and rose

Leaving in a few forget me nots

The clematis is beginning to climb, with some self seeded aquilegia.  There is a French lavender in amongst the forget me nots.