Marion your garden is like the colour of a rainbow it's gorgeous, if I lived closer I would come to your open day, just watching the Chelsea flower show as I write, ho I would be in my element in there , there's lots of lovely water features and the designs of the gardens are really lovely
Absolutely beautiful pictures Marion! Thanks for sharing your garden with us! Always cheers me looking at this thread!
Hi Clumpy, if you like water features then check out Monty's Italian gardens on iPlayer, I just watched it and their use of water is breathtaking! Think you'll like it
Aah we all grow up eventually Dovefromabove though now it behoves us to have recycled water used without using any fossil fuel. Even soar panelled water features take a lot of climatec changing energy to make nowadays. A friend of mine has a natural stream bordering two sides of her garden which males for a beautiful garden but the threat of flooding and loosing all her plants is always there.
It is another beautiful gardening day, a bit warmer, no wind or rain forecast and bright sunshine. T be able to garden anywhere on such a day is priceless.
The die is cast. Everything that is in flower plus my aoniums and tibouchina are coming outside today. The weather forecast had better be right or I will be strewing net curtains everywhere.
Rained through the night so no need for watering today except the tomatoes and seedlings in the conservatory. Cloudy now but dry. I will use my new wheelbarrow to get my two new huge terracotta pots up to the potager where I will fill them with compost in situ, erect wigwams of my bamboo in them and plant out my sweet peas to climb up the wigwams. If I have enough energy left after that I will take , again in the wheelbarrow my terracotta minipond up to the bog garden and place it in the middle of the few bog plants now established there. My efforts to help wildlife are paying off. It is miserable to leave the nettles till the caterpillars have done with them but when I have beautiful brimstone yellow butterflies minglling with my hordes of Meadow Browns I forget all that. The bog garden is attracting the frogs as I thought it would.
The weather was not as good as I had hoped - had to come in for a few showers but the wheelbarrow has done its carrying of all that is too heavy for me and I am finished for the day, quite tired but satisfied. I ordered my groceries online to save time going to the shops. Lots of flowers are opening just in time for my open day next Wednesday and the rhododendrons are looking lovely.
Brilliant sunshine and warm already. Forecast is for sun all day and 18 degrees perhaps 20 in Bristol so definitely a sunhat day in the garden. I hope all my friends on the forum are having the same. Those crowds in Chelsea will be sweltering but may get a lovely bargain plant for their effort.
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Marion your garden is like the colour of a rainbow it's gorgeous, if I lived closer I would come to your open day, just watching the Chelsea flower show as I write, ho I would be in my element in there
, there's lots of lovely water features and the designs of the gardens are really lovely 
Absolutely beautiful pictures Marion! Thanks for sharing your garden with us! Always cheers me looking at this thread!
Hi Clumpy, if you like water features then check out Monty's Italian gardens on iPlayer, I just watched it and their use of water is breathtaking! Think you'll like it
And this from the person who spent a holiday in Florence with her cardigan over her head ".... because it's boooooooooooooooring"
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Aah we all grow up eventually Dovefromabove though now it behoves us to have recycled water used without using any fossil fuel. Even soar panelled water features take a lot of climatec changing energy to make nowadays. A friend of mine has a natural stream bordering two sides of her garden which males for a beautiful garden but the threat of flooding and loosing all her plants is always there.
It is another beautiful gardening day, a bit warmer, no wind or rain forecast and bright sunshine. T be able to garden anywhere on such a day is priceless.
The die is cast. Everything that is in flower plus my aoniums and tibouchina are coming outside today. The weather forecast had better be right or I will be strewing net curtains everywhere.
Oh this sunshine has brought out lots of summer flowers including the alliums and roses.
Rained through the night so no need for watering today except the tomatoes and seedlings in the conservatory. Cloudy now but dry. I will use my new wheelbarrow to get my two new huge terracotta pots up to the potager where I will fill them with compost in situ, erect wigwams of my bamboo in them and plant out my sweet peas to climb up the wigwams. If I have enough energy left after that I will take , again in the wheelbarrow my terracotta minipond up to the bog garden and place it in the middle of the few bog plants now established there. My efforts to help wildlife are paying off. It is miserable to leave the nettles till the caterpillars have done with them but when I have beautiful brimstone yellow butterflies minglling with my hordes of Meadow Browns I forget all that. The bog garden is attracting the frogs as I thought it would.
The weather was not as good as I had hoped - had to come in for a few showers but the wheelbarrow has done its carrying of all that is too heavy for me and I am finished for the day, quite tired but satisfied. I ordered my groceries online to save time going to the shops. Lots of flowers are opening just in time for my open day next Wednesday and the rhododendrons are looking lovely.
Brilliant sunshine and warm already. Forecast is for sun all day and 18 degrees perhaps 20 in Bristol so definitely a sunhat day in the garden. I hope all my friends on the forum are having the same. Those crowds in Chelsea will be sweltering but may get a lovely bargain plant for their effort.
Wandered around the garden and was delighted to see
and
my stalwart hardy geraniums, never fail to please.