It is almost a half acre with the bungalow and seems much larger as i have it split up into many rooms. My husband and i bought it 50 years ago as we had four children and another on the way and wanted room for them to play as well as a garden for me to grow fruit and veg for the family. We had seven children and then seven grandchildren so the garden has been a godsend.
Thank you, flumpy 1. I have just finished a marathon "office" session with the computer and printer so that I can devote the rest of the day to gardening. Talk for Friday coming, done and dusted, Secy Report for Bristol Group of AGS written and printed, ditto minutes and agenda. Now to plant a couple of dozen primulas out and another shrub in my new shrubbery with the spent daffodils out of their pots so I can reuse the pots once more. The forecast for the next five days is glorious gardening weather so bodes well for my Easter display in the front garden. A few more pics from what is, after my own garden, my most favourite place to be - the Univ. of Bristol Botanic Garden. The April delivery from Mr. Fothergills Nation of Gardeners Trials is due from today onwards. I am feeling excited about that .
Parcel from Mr Fothergill arrived and have not taken a breath since! Had to find nine 9cm pots pronto! Another repeat to compare spring sowing with autumn sowing and a new crop for me to try. I will do the new sowings on Saturday. I do love opening the parcel to see what there is to do each month. This month we are having two parcels as there is more to come later in the month. One lady has had to drop out because of ill health. so sad.
I just had to pop out to the front garden to see what the passers by were stopping to look at. It was this cream tulip with the lovely green markings on its sepals. Still lots of dancing daffodils out there too and just look at the unusual shaped flowers on this perennial daisy.
Your flowers look glorious, i can't wait to go to the garden centre and treat my garden to some nice flowers, its friday last day of work whoopee!, what flowers can i put in dry soil? : )
If you are willing to water almost any, but why not treat yourself and the butterflies to some lovely Sedum spectabile plants? There are lots of good varieties out there and you will have hordes of butterflies feeding on their nectar late summer. The foliage is beautiful.
Oh no! Grass frost this morning and forecast again for tonight in Bristol. The price we pay for all this lovely sunshine through the day. As soon as I saw it on next door's grass I rushed to my unheated conservatory to look at the tomato plants that arrived from Mr. Fothergill yesterday(in my nightie) and heaved one big sigh of relief when i saw the leaves did not have a blue green appearance which they would have had if it was too cold for them. They are to be compared for amount of crop to the ones we grew from seed ourselves last month. They do seem to have travelled well as no leaves were broken or bent and the plants raised their heads very shortly after being potted. Visitor for supper tonight so will have to go to the shops before I start in the garden proper. Sunny days do get the house chores done very quickly!
Marion - those tulips are looking terrific. Are they 'Spring Green'? I love the little striped species ones as well. You're plants are all so much further ahead down there. Daffs only just starting to come through here apart from old established ones. Those Arums are lovely too.
What a busy hard working woman you are! I hope you take some time out to enjoy your big anniversary
I'd second the Sedums if you want loads of butterflies and bees. Easy plants to work with too.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think you may be right about the viridiflora tulips. Fairy girl. Got them from Bloms. Tulipa clusiana is one of my favourites too and is making itself at home in the Botanic Garden and in my garden. Very easy. I am enjoying every minute of my anniversary year and will have more time for the garden after tonight when i resign after nine years from my honorary post of secy to the Bristol Group of the Alpine Garden society. Still a committee member for a year but as the big 90 comes nearer I indulge myself more. This year I am giving some of my sedums the Chelsea chop to get nectar spread over a long period.
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It is almost a half acre with the bungalow and seems much larger as i have it split up into many rooms. My husband and i bought it 50 years ago as we had four children and another on the way and wanted room for them to play as well as a garden for me to grow fruit and veg for the family. We had seven children and then seven grandchildren so the garden has been a godsend.
Thank you, flumpy 1. I have just finished a marathon "office" session with the computer and printer so that I can devote the rest of the day to gardening. Talk for Friday coming, done and dusted, Secy Report for Bristol Group of AGS written and printed, ditto minutes and agenda. Now to plant a couple of dozen primulas out and another shrub in my new shrubbery with the spent daffodils out of their pots so I can reuse the pots once more. The forecast for the next five days is glorious gardening weather so bodes well for my Easter display in the front garden. A few more pics from what is, after my own garden, my most favourite place to be - the Univ. of Bristol Botanic Garden. The April delivery from Mr. Fothergills Nation of Gardeners Trials is due from today onwards. I am feeling excited about that .
Parcel from Mr Fothergill arrived and have not taken a breath since! Had to find nine 9cm pots pronto! Another repeat to compare spring sowing with autumn sowing and a new crop for me to try. I will do the new sowings on Saturday. I do love opening the parcel to see what there is to do each month. This month we are having two parcels as there is more to come later in the month. One lady has had to drop out because of ill health. so sad.
I just had to pop out to the front garden to see what the passers by were stopping to look at. It was this cream tulip with the lovely green markings on its sepals. Still lots of dancing daffodils out there too and just look at the unusual shaped flowers on this perennial daisy.
If you are willing to water almost any, but why not treat yourself and the butterflies to some lovely Sedum spectabile plants? There are lots of good varieties out there and you will have hordes of butterflies feeding on their nectar late summer. The foliage is beautiful.
Oh no! Grass frost this morning and forecast again for tonight in Bristol. The price we pay for all this lovely sunshine through the day. As soon as I saw it on next door's grass I rushed to my unheated conservatory to look at the tomato plants that arrived from Mr. Fothergill yesterday(in my nightie) and heaved one big sigh of relief when i saw the leaves did not have a blue green appearance which they would have had if it was too cold for them. They are to be compared for amount of crop to the ones we grew from seed ourselves last month. They do seem to have travelled well as no leaves were broken or bent and the plants raised their heads very shortly after being potted. Visitor for supper tonight so will have to go to the shops before I start in the garden proper. Sunny days do get the house chores done very quickly!
Marion - those tulips are looking terrific. Are they 'Spring Green'? I love the little striped species ones as well. You're plants are all so much further ahead down there. Daffs only just starting to come through here apart from old established ones. Those Arums are lovely too.
What a busy hard working woman you are! I hope you take some time out to enjoy your big anniversary
I'd second the Sedums if you want loads of butterflies and bees. Easy plants to work with too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think you may be right about the viridiflora tulips. Fairy girl. Got them from Bloms. Tulipa clusiana is one of my favourites too and is making itself at home in the Botanic Garden and in my garden. Very easy. I am enjoying every minute of my anniversary year and will have more time for the garden after tonight when i resign after nine years from my honorary post of secy to the Bristol Group of the Alpine Garden society. Still a committee member for a year but as the big 90 comes nearer I indulge myself more. This year I am giving some of my sedums the Chelsea chop to get nectar spread over a long period.