@Simone_in_Wiltshire Love your panoramic photo. As you may have seen my photos are often side ways OK by me as I just want to join in!
My bro has done Blurb books on various subjects including a black and white of Heligan. Mostly for his own enjoyment. Professionally he is a Landscape photographer he does photograph flowers sometimes!
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
12th of June: This is the view from a perspective of a pedestrian.
I have been a keen walker and front garden observer since living in the UK and being lucky to live in towns where front gardens are the norm rather than the exception, however, I have never passed such front
garden.
That front garden is a challenge. It looks all the same and it feels overwhelming, until we start having a closer look at the plants that fill the garden.
There are lots of bees.
Geraniums next to Linaria are heavens for bees.
And there will be more soon, in a few weeks time.
If we saw the same from a wide open field garden, we would be excited. Knowing it's just in that little space of 5x6 meters, this picture is a good example how manipulating pictures can be.
We have now completed the first half of the year. Days are getting shorter now, but we don't want think about that. We are enjoying the summer after the long, cold winter. We recently experienced strong winds that made it difficult to find a good moment for taking images, something that I also face in my garden. On the other side, I noticed while passing the garden last weekend, nothing much has changed. Most of the flowers that I snapped 3 weeks ago are fading, or have finished their cycle for this year. For this reason, I haven't taken many pictures this time.
The yellow Lysimachia Punctata that has a habit of spreading, will continue to flower until August.
There are other plants that start showing up and we are still waiting for the bulb plants that are scattered all over the flower bed.
July has been a very wet month with rain double the average and very strong winds. We are in a wind alley and it's probably one of the examples for failed town-planning what wind control concerns. It's no wonder that plants look stressed. The second problem is the yellow Lysimachia Punctata that needs to be tackled as well as the new star, Crocosmia. When starting this project, I said it will interesting to see what survived the drought summer 2022. What we see today is not the front garden as it was until 2021. However, circumstances can change and care is not possible because other things are more important.
Oh dear @Simone_in_Wiltshire i am so sorry to hear that. I hope you recover well and quickly, and that life isn’t too frustrating in the meantime. Very best wishes. 🤗
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Many thanks @Dovefromabove It’s “just” a broken collarbone caused by a stupid car driver who decided he can’t wait 3 minutes to get green and knocked me down on my bike. Don’t ask what pain I have. I was operated on Monday. My arm is now fixated to my body for the next 2 month. If I’m lucky, I will be able to eat the Christmas dinner using both hands.
He will be charged in a few months time and my solicitor will be chasing him too.
Oh how horrible @Simone_in_Wiltshire … an accident is bad enough, but when someone has ‘done something to you’ it feels so much more like a personal attack (or so a friend told me). Do take things gently … accept all the caring help you can get … and if you cant get out and about and do things, you can at least join in on some of the chat threads here and keep company with gardeners. 🤗
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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My bro has done Blurb books on various subjects including a black and white of Heligan.
Mostly for his own enjoyment. Professionally he is a Landscape photographer he does photograph flowers sometimes!
What a difference compare to two weeks ago.
27th of May:
12th of June: This is the view from a perspective of a pedestrian.
I have been a keen walker and front garden observer since living in the UK and being lucky to live in towns where front gardens are the norm rather than the exception, however, I have never passed such front garden.
That front garden is a challenge. It looks all the same and it feels overwhelming, until we start having a closer look at the plants that fill the garden.
There are lots of bees.
Geraniums next to Linaria are heavens for bees.
And there will be more soon, in a few weeks time.
If we saw the same from a wide open field garden, we would be excited. Knowing it's just in that little space of 5x6 meters, this picture is a good example how manipulating pictures can be.
Let's see what comes next.
I ♥ my garden.
We have now completed the first half of the year. Days are getting shorter now, but we don't want think about that. We are enjoying the summer after the long, cold winter.
We recently experienced strong winds that made it difficult to find a good moment for taking images, something that I also face in my garden. On the other side, I noticed while passing the garden last weekend, nothing much has changed. Most of the flowers that I snapped 3 weeks ago are fading, or have finished their cycle for this year. For this reason, I haven't taken many pictures this time.
The yellow Lysimachia Punctata that has a habit of spreading, will continue to flower until August.
There are other plants that start showing up and we are still waiting for the bulb plants that are scattered all over the flower bed.
I ♥ my garden.
July has been a very wet month with rain double the average and very strong winds. We are in a wind alley and it's probably one of the examples for failed town-planning what wind control concerns. It's no wonder that plants look stressed.
The second problem is the yellow Lysimachia Punctata that needs to be tackled as well as the new star, Crocosmia.
When starting this project, I said it will interesting to see what survived the drought summer 2022. What we see today is not the front garden as it was until 2021. However, circumstances can change and care is not possible because other things are more important.
I ♥ my garden.
I ♥ my garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I ♥ my garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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