These PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE are a wild plant that a customer asked me to remove from her garden last Autumn. I thought, and still think they are a quality plant and I'm truly chuffed to give it a home.
The FOXGLOVES are perennial. They're a bit of a rarity, blooming for a short period, but well worth finding a space in bed for
…..if you see what I mean Guvna!
Even lovelier when the buds open.
Talking of things that don't flower for long,
we have DAY LILLYS in bloom.. luckily they have a mass of buds that flower one at a time, for a day each: hence several weeks of show.
I put these HYDRANGEAS on the last garden blog and thought I'd inflict them on you again. Nice FLY too.
When we moved into this house, there wasn't much in the way of decorative plants in the garden. Masses of GROUND ELDER taking up space, the Hydrangea and this squat, hardy,
FUSCHIA,
from which I've taken many cuttings.
Blue is one of those colours that we don't have enough of in this garden.
This small. Slow growing perennial is a valuable member of the team.
The fruit's doing well
APPLES
and my lone PEACH
and a bunch of PLUMS, all tantalizingly close to edible.... I can't wait.
Another of Dad's gift of bulbs has burst into bloom
It's a type of SHAMROCK with very bold ZONAL LEAVES.
MARJORAM is over, in terms of it's value as a CULINARY HERB
still makes a pretty flower for the border.
We have a good range GERANIUMS
which can give these architectural SEED PODS
LADIES MANTLE blooms like mad at this time of year.
CROCOSMIA is MeWally's favourite. It reminds him of his childhood summer holidays at BLUE ANCHOR, by the sea.
The back yard LILLYS are still beautiful,
So here's a couple of similar shots.
Sadly, you can't get a whiff of them and heaven itself.
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