Really enjoying reading your gardens development @D0rdogne_Damsel. Good for you, took me a week to plant 4 new plants!! The totally tangerine is an early flowering one, mine have been blooming for 2 weeks and it's a chilly spring!
The dilemmas of gardening; one section of the new bed is looking good, possibly even over stocked, writing notes to self for next year.... another section is still looking bare, note to self, be patient. Odd weather this year, extreme cold with harsh wind, then 2 days of tipping 27°. Frost possible next week.... To risk putting out 'filler' annuals (Cosmos/Zinnia/Gaillarde) or not....
Glaring at said bed is not helping. 🤔😏🙂
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
That's it, all plants/seedlings/cuttings are in! They've all got two chances now. 😱
I am able to open my restaurant on the 19th of May so the next 10 days are going to be a bit frenetic, I'm hoping to find some time in the garden, but certainly not the hours I've been able to lately, so now it has to just get on with it.
Very pleased to have raised a Lupin to flowering stage, and more buds and lots of new growth to come. Spotted a few Lupin Aphid so have washed them all off, I think I might have to do a dawn patrol to keep on top of them though.
The Euphoria is going great guns, as is the Hemerocallis, probably too good, there seems to be a lot of it, I'll have to split it in autumn.
I've had an obelisk made for the grandiflora rose, it will be going in tomorrow, there's a strong wind forecast this evening, I didn't want to chance it just yet. I'm sure it will be fine, but I'd like the rose to embed itself around it before I test it out in a gale.
It's certainly a bed of two halves at the moment, I am hoping by the summer it will look more cohesive. Tricky trying to balance it when it's viewed from both sides too.
Anyway, I'll post some more pictures in a few weeks, hopefully looking a bit more mature, I'm pretty sure I will have a few extra grey hairs by then to making me look mature. Re-opening the restaurant is no easy task after 7 months of closure. Ill have to practice making cakes beforehand, and test them of course. 😅
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
The rain has certainly made things grow, shame it's beating flowers down and the cold is delaying blooms but the lupins are doing very well, which I am very pleased about. A little more settled weather next week and warmer so I am hoping the newer plants will start making some progress.
Pergola in, poor rose beaten about by rain though and the Euphorbia. I think the Sedum have got too big, but not sure quite what to do about it yet.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
I was after a Lupin Terracotta after seeing them on tv at Chelsea flower show. I couldn't find one so went with Towering inferno which is supposed to be a orange / reddish colour , more like a pinky red to my eyes but I like it anyway.
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The totally tangerine is an early flowering one, mine have been blooming for 2 weeks and it's a chilly spring!
Odd weather this year, extreme cold with harsh wind, then 2 days of tipping 27°. Frost possible next week....
To risk putting out 'filler' annuals (Cosmos/Zinnia/Gaillarde) or not....
Glaring at said bed is not helping. 🤔😏🙂
I am able to open my restaurant on the 19th of May so the next 10 days are going to be a bit frenetic, I'm hoping to find some time in the garden, but certainly not the hours I've been able to lately, so now it has to just get on with it.
Very pleased to have raised a Lupin to flowering stage, and more buds and lots of new growth to come. Spotted a few Lupin Aphid so have washed them all off, I think I might have to do a dawn patrol to keep on top of them though.
The Euphoria is going great guns, as is the Hemerocallis, probably too good, there seems to be a lot of it, I'll have to split it in autumn.
I've had an obelisk made for the grandiflora rose, it will be going in tomorrow, there's a strong wind forecast this evening, I didn't want to chance it just yet. I'm sure it will be fine, but I'd like the rose to embed itself around it before I test it out in a gale.
It's certainly a bed of two halves at the moment, I am hoping by the summer it will look more cohesive. Tricky trying to balance it when it's viewed from both sides too.
Anyway, I'll post some more pictures in a few weeks, hopefully looking a bit more mature, I'm pretty sure I will have a few extra grey hairs by then to making me look mature. Re-opening the restaurant is no easy task after 7 months of closure. Ill have to practice making cakes beforehand, and test them of course. 😅
Pergola in, poor rose beaten about by rain though and the Euphorbia. I think the Sedum have got too big, but not sure quite what to do about it yet.