David - the very dark Iris- my favourite colour! Warsaw Nike is a nice Clematis isn't it?
Ighten - looking great. what a beautiful site. Hornbeam will be absolutely fine there. It makes a lovely hedge and will tolerate wetter conditions than Beech. I planted a bare root Hornbeam hedge in a previous garden and it made a good hedge in a couple of years.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This is going to be a pathetic post but you know how we say that sometimes little things can make your day. The wind in our trap of a garden was wild today and I had to rush about staking things. Then I noticed this little ladybird hunkered down on the flower head of a Cirsium (rivulare atrop.). I had to hold the plant to photograph it and was overexcited about it because it's the first time I've ever seen a ladybird in our garden. We are inundated with greenfly on absolutely everything at the moment, more than I've ever seen before and I'd been bemoaning the fact that we never have ladybirds. So - in raptures over one little ladybird! Mad isn't it. But I hope there are a whole lot more around somewhere.
This is going to be a pathetic post but you know how we say that sometimes little things can make your day. The wind in our trap of a garden was wild today and I had to rush about staking things. Then I noticed this little ladybird hunkered down on the flower head of a Cirsium (rivulare atrop.). I had to hold the plant to photograph it and was overexcited about it because it's the first time I've ever seen a ladybird in our garden. We are inundated with greenfly on absolutely everything at the moment, more than I've ever seen before and I'd been bemoaning the fact that we never have ladybirds. So - in raptures over one little ladybird! Mad isn't it. But I hope there are a whole lot more around somewhere.
that was the hardest thing to endure when the garden went organic-the ladybugs and their wonderful voracious larvae lagged the aphids by about a year-the deck under the willow tree was unuseable
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David - the very dark Iris- my favourite colour! Warsaw Nike is a nice Clematis isn't it?
Ighten - looking great. what a beautiful site. Hornbeam will be absolutely fine there. It makes a lovely hedge and will tolerate wetter conditions than Beech. I planted a bare root Hornbeam hedge in a previous garden and it made a good hedge in a couple of years.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
David S. is that a peony? Wow!
This is going to be a pathetic post but you know how we say that sometimes little things can make your day. The wind in our trap of a garden was wild today and I had to rush about staking things. Then I noticed this little ladybird hunkered down on the flower head of a Cirsium (rivulare atrop.). I had to hold the plant to photograph it and was overexcited about it because it's the first time I've ever seen a ladybird in our garden. We are inundated with greenfly on absolutely everything at the moment, more than I've ever seen before and I'd been bemoaning the fact that we never have ladybirds. So - in raptures over one little ladybird! Mad isn't it. But I hope there are a whole lot more around somewhere.
Thakyou for sharing your gardens with us
ds, your Iris and Peonies are to die for!
Lovely photos everyone, thanks.
DavidS is the peony 'bowl of beauty' or something similar, love it, never had one...yet.
FB - ahhh the memories, photos are fab, so many lovely areas.
what an incredible spring-mrs garden that peony is strawberry sundae
the white party-philadelphus natchez rose nevada viburnum opulus-----ighten what a magnificent project---how far in the country are you?
Just been looking at the photos from the last few days. Wow