Month: May 2013
this is looking good at the moment.
I’ve just added the final April photos to the album.
If anyone would like to see it, it is here…
I’m glad it’s gloomy and raining today – I had a hard time disciplining myself to work when the weather was so lovely yesterday. Of course I had to take a few breaks to stretch my legs (and do a few bits while I was out!) We went out and worked on for an hour or so when Alan got home and it was glorious.
I love the combination of wallflowers and forget-me-nots – old-fashioned I know but sometimes things stay the way they are because they just work perfectly that way. And it’s so nice to see the young hedges and trees all coming into flower and leaf.
It doesn’t matter how far into the yellow season we have come, I will ALWAYS love yellow.
And yesterday evening lying beside the pond after work, I was admiring my Caltha palustris as it is now shedding its petals. It’s even more beautiful now than when it was in full flower.
HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SUMMER, EVERYONE.
I did a journal about Tulips and this is a photo from the web as to what my Tulips should be like ….am happy with my ones but this is what they should be like ..
As well as the 50 m border on the West-facing side of the front garden I also one the same length on the other side. I am really excited about the Peony lactiflora which I bought last year and didn’t flower either. The flowers on this are supposed to be quite large and a very deep magenta colour so it is looking more than promising that it will flower.
Next to that is the Sambucus Black Lace elderberry which has already begun to form its tiny flowers from which I hope to make a cordial this Summer. Last year two long horizontal branches were all that existed so when I transplanted it I decide to cane them in an upright position, now I have at least two dozen side shoots and each of them bearing the flower buds.
But one other notable beauty I spotted today is the vivid blue-purple Anemone.
this plant is amazing, i planted it on a north facing aspect, as you can see the sun on it their in the pic, it gets 20mins early in the morning only, if the suns shinig of course, as do the other plants, the sun shines between two buildings briefly, yet this is one of my favourite beds in the garden. its in shade all winter and after that 20mins that it until next time.
Last Summer I made a few purchases in the Arboretum Garden Centre near Carlow and planted them temporarily that evening. Sometime during Autumn I then moved them to their current positions and am happy to say they seem to be thriving. This section is at one end of a 50 metre border I am working on, looking forward to seeing them in full bloom. Included in the first photo is a Bleeding Heart, Alliums Phlox, Penstemon (Ok they are struggling), Rudbeckia “Herbstonne”, Forest Flame (on a deep bed of ericaceous compost) and of course lots of Veronica gentianoides which I graciously received from Anne (Ladygardener) last year.
Just the other side of the tree to the left I planted easily over 100 bulbs that we had growing in pots here and there and they have really shot up in the last 3 weeks, behind them is the Firecracker and the mystery plant (think its a rogue Willow as posted previously) but the star performer has to be the Dicentra.
i was glad to see my alpine strawberries are flowering away and should bear fruit in time, if this weather stays reasonable.
The plant in the photos literally just turned up a few years ago in a pot that used to house an asiatic lily (since moved to the lily bed). The first time I spotted it I thought it was a weed of some sort yet every year I never felt the urge to pull it and dump. Last Autumn I planted a lot of lily bulbs on one section of a new border currently being planted up on an ongoing basis and when I came to planting the lily that was in the same pot as this plant I decided that it too would go in the border.
I think it is some sort of willow and I also think I saw it growing in roadside ditches nearby last Winter (I must return to that stretch of road to check if the foliage is indeed the same) so I would appreciate if anyone could confirm this either way.
There seems to be a flower bud half way down one of the main stems, maybe this will help with more precise ID.
