my nan always put in an edging of alternate blue lobelia and white alyssum.
My grandma did this too! Whenever I smell alyssum now I am immediately transported back to her garden.
Dad had dahlias in regimented rows in the front garden. The back was for veggies and the lawn, but we had a strip along the fence between us and next door and I was allowed a patch where I sowed some cornflowers which came up in great profusion. Have not had the same success since.
Mum was mad for aubretia, it was everywhere! Plus wallflowers in every imaginable clashing colour. She was the only one in our upwardly mobile neighbourhood to have a veg patch, I remember having to eat lots of carrots and potatoes and did take up veg gardening when I finally got my own plot. I also cherish the memory of being allocated a rockery to plant up as a child, having been inspired by Percy Thrower.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
There were hundreds of laburnums in people's gardens, I don't know if they'd just got prolific in our neck o' the woods, or if they were a fashion. I don't see many now, shame that.
My father used a cine camera acidly in the 50's through to the 80's or so. We ,later , had some of them transposed on DVD's. Today, I've watched one such DVD today and imagine my surprise and delight when I saw our a film of our old family home where I grew up , and there was the back garden with all its roses and wallflowers recorded in all their glory! ( plus the family and moi aged about 5!). This dated from the 50's so was magical to watch it at my age now. 👍😊
@Songbird-2 what a joy to have. Glad to hear your dad was a keen gardener. What trends did he adopt through the years, and what did he maintain as it went out of fashion........?
@fliprollsw, dad wasn't really into gardening, he basically just kept the grass cut and the borders looking nice. Mum was the gardener, in between bringing up 3 kids and then returning to work, in a school, later on. They tended to have flowers in the garden that they liked, didn't follow trends as such ( much like us).
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Dad had dahlias in regimented rows in the front garden. The back was for veggies and the lawn, but we had a strip along the fence between us and next door and I was allowed a patch where I sowed some cornflowers which came up in great profusion. Have not had the same success since.
My father used a cine camera acidly in the 50's through to the 80's or so. We ,later , had some of them transposed on DVD's. Today, I've watched one such DVD today and imagine my surprise and delight when I saw our a film of our old family home where I grew up , and there was the back garden with all its roses and wallflowers recorded in all their glory! ( plus the family and moi aged about 5!). This dated from the 50's so was magical to watch it at my age now. 👍😊