Superb collection of garden photos for 2014! I just finished reading the whole thread and love all the gardens and photos.
My garden is in transformation at the moment. Its made up of three garden rooms and a veg plot this is a pic of the middle garden.
Do not adjust your television sets, the arch is meant to be wonky..well not meant. It rotted and got blown down so a new one is on the way. Hurray.
Also, I removed the lawn in favour of stones, redesigned some of the borders and there is a linking path at the very bottom of the picture which is yet to be built.
If you could turn a photo to view behind me, right now its full of builders rubble. Some to be used by me, some to be removed by skip. So much work to do still, but I am so happy with this area now whereas before it annoyed and vexed me, which a garden should never do
By chance, choosing the path where i did affords me a great new view up the long border which presently offers pale green Euphorbia Silver Swan, a red Acer Palmatum Dissectum Garnet behind it and a yellow Euonymus Fortunei and the blue Ceonothus through the trellis. Couldn't be happier
Your gardens are all stunning- really inspiring. They all seem more advanced than mine- I've still got daffs and hellebores flowering...
Fidgetbones, can I ask what that tall orangey red plant is with the red stems? In one pic it's under what I think is a red robin, and in another with some forget me nots...
I've a couple of those Dove - Frances Rivas and Helsingborg - both 'good doers' and I don't prune either (except removing old dead heads in late Winter, If I get around to it!)
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
..I like that 'Pamela Jackman' very much... who wouldn't..? I've also got some of these types... 'Frances Rivis'..'Foxy'...and 'Propertius'... which are alpina's... plus macropetala's...'Markham's Pink' which I'm liking very much...and 'Wesselton'...this is a bit slow so far... 'Foxy' is a lovely bright colour which lights up a darkish area...
..most of these are recently planted... I wouldn't mind a pure white one...
..this is my very favourite plant, above all others... Euphorbia mellifera...in this sheltered spot it has survived -12c on occasions... it looks terrible when frozen, like we all do...it self seeds, and as the late Christopher Lloyd once advised to replace every 5 years as ''young plants are so handsome''... and I agree with him there... this one is about 4 years old...the flowers have a honey like scent...and I like it best with some rain drops on the leaves...
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Superb collection of garden photos for 2014! I just finished reading the whole thread and love all the gardens and photos.
My garden is in transformation at the moment. Its made up of three garden rooms and a veg plot this is a pic of the middle garden.
Do not adjust your television sets, the arch is meant to be wonky..well not meant. It rotted and got blown down so a new one is on the way. Hurray.
Also, I removed the lawn in favour of stones, redesigned some of the borders and there is a linking path at the very bottom of the picture which is yet to be built.
If you could turn a photo to view behind me, right now its full of builders rubble. Some to be used by me, some to be removed by skip. So much work to do still, but I am so happy with this area now whereas before it annoyed and vexed me, which a garden should never do
By chance, choosing the path where i did affords me a great new view up the long border which presently offers pale green Euphorbia Silver Swan, a red Acer Palmatum Dissectum Garnet behind it and a yellow Euonymus Fortunei and the blue Ceonothus through the trellis. Couldn't be happier
Beautiful Wintersong, there's nothing like the feeling of achievement in your garden
Your gardens are all stunning- really inspiring. They all seem more advanced than mine- I've still got daffs and hellebores flowering...
Fidgetbones, can I ask what that tall orangey red plant is with the red stems? In one pic it's under what I think is a red robin, and in another with some forget me nots...
cheers
Vic
Wonderful photos all - thanks for sharing. I think this is my favouritest thread of all
Funny Chicky. I was thinking exactly the same as I caught up. Love the whole forum but this is just the best
Mine do, if I don't prune them after flowering, which I don't.
Interesting article here http://www.rhs.org.uk/getattachment/f1da3297-da04-4e0d-8376-34c9d1953950/Clematis-alpina-and-C--macropetala.aspx
I want all of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dove - another one for the shopping basket.
I've a couple of those Dove - Frances Rivas and Helsingborg - both 'good doers' and I don't prune either (except removing old dead heads in late Winter, If I get around to it!)
..I like that 'Pamela Jackman' very much... who wouldn't..? I've also got some of these types... 'Frances Rivis'..'Foxy'...and 'Propertius'... which are alpina's... plus macropetala's...'Markham's Pink' which I'm liking very much...and 'Wesselton'...this is a bit slow so far... 'Foxy' is a lovely bright colour which lights up a darkish area...
..most of these are recently planted... I wouldn't mind a pure white one...
..this is my very favourite plant, above all others... Euphorbia mellifera...in this sheltered spot it has survived -12c on occasions... it looks terrible when frozen, like we all do...it self seeds, and as the late Christopher Lloyd once advised to replace every 5 years as ''young plants are so handsome''... and I agree with him there... this one is about 4 years old...the flowers have a honey like scent...and I like it best with some rain drops on the leaves...
..my little Himalayan glade...
Camellia 'Deep Secret'...