Very blowy here although the rain has stopped. I have watched the first five show gardens on the Red Button. I do hope it is nicer weather in Chelsea for her Majesty's visit. Perhaps she will wear her snazzy hairnet if it is very blowy, much more sensible than those big hats.
The same here Marion, sun quite warm too. Spent a few hours after the rain clearing weeds from the pavings around the house. Not being cemented in all sorts of interesting things emerge - mostly weeds but have a crop of achemila (sp) mollis to pot on!
The weeds came out easily and, ofcourse, the water butts are filling nicely.
Your garden is so full of colour, beautiful. It's a joy to look at your thread .
Taking my camera out now to catch the best of my garden, albeit mostly in bud.
Not a good weather forecast for today, although it is sunny at the moment. It is blustery however by the look of the trees bending away in the garden. I still have a lot to do in the conservatory and the 16 tomatoes already potted up need watering now. Lovely to hear from you, Bizzie B. I hope you got lots of interesting pictures.
A splendid day for gardening promised and, as it is one week till my open day it will be full steam ahead. On the tour of inspection this morning I met the dark brown fox again a cursory glance who just gave me as he passed making for my back gate so he will know m next time we meet. I was pleased to see the colour showing on my purple rhododendron which has loads of buds. The yellow one has already opened and the white one. I came back with an armful of weeds which came out easily after the rain we had yesterday. To work now.
Thankyou Marion , I see you have S. Umbrosa too. My garden would be the poorer without that and forget-me-knots brightening the borders. Always happy to have self-seeders and ground covering plants.
Weigela shows its arched branches better at the height you have it. Is that a potentiila In front? Good backdrop and screening for the fence.
A fox! how wonderful!
High cloud, sun and strong wind. Undeterred, going to tackle my neglected side border. Looking to see if the Helleborus has set any seed.
Yes, Bizzie B I love London Pride. The Potentilla fructicosa i bought 26 years ago when I had gone to Canada to visit my sister and saw how it colonised newly opened spaces caused by electrical storms in the Canadian Rockies. It was August and covered in bright yellow flowers that really brightened up the dark green of the conifers and the burnt out tree trunks. It will flower for months from now onwards.I took a cutting and put it in the front garden too. That weigela disguises the three compost bins there nicely.
I have just been watching "Points West" and 50 schoolchildren gardening in the front garden of the BBC Whiteladies Road studios - The first contingent of 700 who are going to transform the lawns into a wildlife garden which will act as a classroom for the Wildlife Trust. Valerie Singleton was there and looking every bit as lovely as when I was on a show with her nearly 50 years ago. I can thoroughly recommend aiming at being the Green Capital of Europe. It transforms your city. Watching the TV coverage of Chelsea I am getting such satisfaction every time some presenter mentions how many hundreds of pounds the Show gardens cost since it was naturalistic planting that won best in show and my garden is full of it, simply because, being a botanist, i love wild flowers but of course it is beautiful, very similar to the Chatsworth Garden but much bigger so I now look at it and think that would cost a million to have designed and built.
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Very blowy here although the rain has stopped. I have watched the first five show gardens on the Red Button. I do hope it is nicer weather in Chelsea for her Majesty's visit. Perhaps she will wear her snazzy hairnet if it is very blowy, much more sensible than those big hats.
The same here Marion, sun quite warm too. Spent a few hours after the rain clearing weeds from the pavings around the house. Not being cemented in all sorts of interesting things emerge - mostly weeds but have a crop of achemila (sp) mollis to pot on!
The weeds came out easily and, ofcourse, the water butts are filling nicely.
Your garden is so full of colour, beautiful. It's a joy to look at your thread
.
Taking my camera out now to catch the best of my garden, albeit mostly in bud.
Not a good weather forecast for today, although it is sunny at the moment. It is blustery however by the look of the trees bending away in the garden. I still have a lot to do in the conservatory and the 16 tomatoes already potted up need watering now. Lovely to hear from you, Bizzie B. I hope you got lots of interesting pictures.
Yes
there were more than I thought. A few to share
wigelia, every branch in arching bloom ^
Works of art there, BizzieB. TY so much . I especially like the third one down. Yes the weigela has been phenominal this year.
Just before it bucketed down with rain I managed to get some pics of my garden in Chelsea Week.
A splendid day for gardening promised and, as it is one week till my open day it will be full steam ahead. On the tour of inspection this morning I met the dark brown fox again a cursory glance who just gave me as he passed making for my back gate so he will know m next time we meet. I was pleased to see the colour showing on my purple rhododendron which has loads of buds. The yellow one has already opened and the white one. I came back with an armful of weeds which came out easily after the rain we had yesterday. To work now.
Thankyou Marion
, I see you have S. Umbrosa too. My garden would be the poorer without that and forget-me-knots brightening the borders. Always happy to have self-seeders and ground covering plants.
Weigela shows its arched branches better at the height you have it. Is that a potentiila In front? Good backdrop and screening for the fence.
A fox! how wonderful!
High cloud, sun and strong wind. Undeterred, going to tackle my neglected side border. Looking to see if the Helleborus has set any seed.
Yes, Bizzie B I love London Pride. The Potentilla fructicosa i bought 26 years ago when I had gone to Canada to visit my sister and saw how it colonised newly opened spaces caused by electrical storms in the Canadian Rockies. It was August and covered in bright yellow flowers that really brightened up the dark green of the conifers and the burnt out tree trunks. It will flower for months from now onwards.I took a cutting and put it in the front garden too. That weigela disguises the three compost bins there nicely.
I have just been watching "Points West" and 50 schoolchildren gardening in the front garden of the BBC Whiteladies Road studios - The first contingent of 700 who are going to transform the lawns into a wildlife garden which will act as a classroom for the Wildlife Trust. Valerie Singleton was there and looking every bit as lovely as when I was on a show with her nearly 50 years ago. I can thoroughly recommend aiming at being the Green Capital of Europe. It transforms your city. Watching the TV coverage of Chelsea I am getting such satisfaction every time some presenter mentions how many hundreds of pounds the Show gardens cost since it was naturalistic planting that won best in show and my garden is full of it, simply because, being a botanist, i love wild flowers but of course it is beautiful, very similar to the Chatsworth Garden but much bigger so I now look at it and think that would cost a million to have designed and built.