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You can't beat a dollop of mud a day to keep the Doctor at bay.

Why not follow me about as I garden for money and just for fun in beautiful Nailsworth and its' environs.

What's it all about?

My gardens, that's all and any gardening related stuff I guess you might be interested in.

Where do I garden?

My house is in the centre of Nailsworth. With the wind in the right direction, we get a strong whiff of curry as it floats out of the Passage to India and into our front garden. We never get this smell anywhere else on our premises, which is either a good thing, or a bad one, depending on your point of view. As you now know we have a garden, a small rectangle, at the front of the house, and a triangular courtyard garden at the back. Then there's the Garden Plot, right down in the heart of Nailsworth, which I rent from a local business. This is new as from Autumn 2009 and will take a lot of work to help it become productive. I try to garden for veges at my friend Debbis house and for fun with my next door neighbour.

It adds up to a lot of work. For a relaxing hobby, it's proving stressful at times, but, mostly it's heaven.

There are customers who like me to work for them right through the year, and others who I see during the summer months. This working more days a week in the summer than in the winter, of course. The way to keep the finances stable for me has been to teach on the days I don't garden. Works really well for me. The bills get paid, we haven't starved to death yet and we get to have fun ... sometimes!

Monday, 6 September 2010

Our Garden 24.7.10



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.


Later, it flops around and looks a complete mess. A quick snip and it's all tidy once more.

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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