Ok I’m going slightly wider but not quite ready for full landscape. I feel like it’s all still a bit patchy - everyone else's gardens look so much better put together.
I found the label for this yesterday. It's actually Bright as a Button. Thrives on full sun and general neglect.
Campanula in front of the cornus.
Cerinthe and rosa centre stage
Waiting for this corner to fill out a bit but the weigela is happy and the stipa gigantea, which only had one flower last year, has settled in.
@Lena_vs_Deer that's a lovely combination with the senecio angels wings - I've just dug mine out and it's sitting in a pot waiting for me to find a spot and seeing your picture has inspired me and I now know exactly where it will go!
Since I recently asked for more general garden views on this Garden Gallery thread we've had a significant increase in that kind of pics (along with the usual flower portraits). Thanks to those who contributed. No need to be shy about your achievements, the extraordinary variety of gardening styles makes up the common wealth of this forum in general and of this thread in particular. Here are some random likes...
@Victoria Sponge Lovely colour combination of "Pinks and purples in the back garden"
@Eustace You wrote that "[your] garden is not so well kept, but the flowers don't seem to mind", and indeed they do not mind; lovely colours!
@Elfer You said that your garden is "a work in progress". Aren't all our gardens a work in progress. You've already made very good progress. Hope you will continue posting of further developments here.
@Busy-Lizzie, It must have been difficult to leave your former garden. You have already made good progress in the new one. That "jardin potager" in itself is quite a show-piece! Bravo!
@B3 Nice general views of your lovely garden, as always. Where are those "less photogenic bits" you mention? I'm sure they're hard to find.
@Suesyn What do you mean "not a tidy gardener"? You must be joking. Thanks for the lovely views of a lovely garden, great job you've been doing there!
@Lena_vs_Deer We don't get so many members from the US on this forum, and you are most welcome. You write "there's all sorts of conditions are provided there from full shade to
full sun so I'm looking forward to trying a lot of different plants". That is a great setting to try out many things. You've already indeed have great spots to "show off"! Love your pic #2, the scene between the house (?) and the woods.
@Janie B Stunning blue delphiniums, carefully surrounded by metal supports!
@didyw Love your "vignette of Verbascum Pink Domino, Astrantia Major (Gill Richardson Group) and a heucher" Very dainty ensemble.
@SeahorseFriend I can see you're interested in ferns. We have several threads about ferns on this forum. You'll find them is you do a search on the forum home page.
It's not a competition. I'm sure we learn as much from the accidents and the messes and the scraggly bits as we do from perfectly formed portraits, if not more.
Our garden has been very slow to wake to life this year. A lot of things that flowered in May last year are still deciding whether to flower or not this year. Hopefully the latter although I have just dug up two dead buddleje davidii😢 Geums and lillies are just about out and the hostas are doing well. We are in southern Norway and had a month of minus 20s and very little snow which seems to have confused the garden!!
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I found the label for this yesterday. It's actually Bright as a Button. Thrives on full sun and general neglect.
Campanula in front of the cornus.
Cerinthe and rosa centre stage
Waiting for this corner to fill out a bit but the weigela is happy and the stipa gigantea, which only had one flower last year, has settled in.
Weeds and self-seeds
my garden is just a boring rectangle with an L shaped border. Completely unadventurous.