Month: April 2016
I have this tree for about 10 years. Think I got it as a baby from Future Forest with several others. I never noticed flowers on it previously but this year there are many pretty white flowers looking rather like Lily of the Valley. I have been told it is a variety of Amelanchier. I have A. canadensis bought around the same time and from same source. Howeve to me it does not look any way like my mystery tree. This one grows in a conical form and looks as if it will get very tall indeed!
Scrubber has been very busy this last week or so. There was a clay bank at the back of the long border. Its over 100 feet long or should that be mwters , anyway it runs from gate to the back of my plot and is about a meter wide and one part of it is always FILTHY with weeds and stuff. I decided to take it on. I had edged the back with a few big stones so I decoded to take out any remaining stones along its length and put them all into a small wall backing the border. This now looks very clean and I even ventured in under the low Juniper and cleared out there. Very dirty work and being hatless I gave my head a terrific bang off a big low branch-only discovered next day that I had drawn blood! Anna is not keen on the Juniper as I exposed a lot of trunk. I think its quite japaneesy looking and its not coming out. Its lovely though to now have a very clean area there and the new ‘wall’ is rough but looks well. Ill try to put up photograph.
Last night as I came in I noticed a new shrub in flower , a philadelphus no less and out very early. It gave me a nice boost because after the Rockery, Wall and Juniper I was fairly tired. Got a great new head for the strimmer and it is easily loaded so there will be a lot of strimming done. The snowdrops caught me out and aregone over long ago so no division this year!
The lovely Rhodo I got from my grandchildren (two in fact with lovely red velvety underleaves have each produced two candy pink flowers with which I am delighted. Ill try to put up an album. Oh the Skunk Cabbage is out in all its glory and stink and there are five white Lysichitons beside it. Same flower but white and much smaller. Life is good even if it is still raining but that will settle in the clay in the rockery!
Well on a day like today what else can one do?
Took a little trip to Lidl this morning to buy tin foil! and I ended up with some compost and three plants!
Abutilon ‘Red Trumpet’ Lovely orange bell like flowers
Abutilon ‘Redisch’ The flowers on this are more a pink colour
Lantana ‘Camara’ This has orangey yellow flowers
The flowers on the Abutilon are fabulous. I have Abutilon megapotamicum already and love the flowers on it!
Lantana has a lovely lemony scent off it and the flowers are just lovely. Wont be putting them outdoors for a little while yet as they are not frost hardy.
Very pleased with my buys!
Some nice white flowers and shrunbs in the garden at the moment – they go well with the snow showers!!
These few plants just do their own thing and I am happy to let them
This lovely spring plant is just coming into it’s own at the moment, I really like this one.
I’ve heard they really don’t like been disturbed, is this true does anyone know? As I would like to divide this one this year.
Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend, regardless of the weather LOL
I have just put up some of the photos taken yesterday at the above garden. Yesterday had to be the coldest Spring day ever!!! Earlier in the week we, as part of the Clew Bay Garden Trail, received an invite to come and look at the Spring garden, especially the tulips. Considering the day that was in it, very windy, hail and snow on the Sheffrey hills we had a lovely afternoon – we hadn’t ever visited in the Spring. On arrival it was actually sunny and stayed dry during our visit but oh so cold! Drimbaun is a garden in progress – so every year in the summer (open for 1 weekend) we see a great difference from the previous year.
It’s a very big garden with lawns leading down to Lough Mask – the lake being very choppy yesterday afternoon. This garden has been planned out in terraces. The tulip borders are on the bottom terrace so that area flattens out down to the lake. The vegetable area is also in this area. I will put up more photos later!!
Thanks to Dick for that wonderful word. Yes I got away from walls and wokaways today and it was good to get to grips with the earth. (Literally) Tearing out clumps of grass and dandelion roots from between the roots of trees, removing forests of spreading buttercup- a decent weed, comes up cleanly and leaves a big gapof clean clay-not like that pernicious vetch with its little black threads, grr. Also was edging around bushes and clearing a border and finally managed to cut grass in lowerlawn which set off the wokawy to perfection!
I havent photos but will have tomorrow. I must confess I did sacrifice one or two daff clumps that were not quite gone over but one cant always be perfect! These are some from an old album. I love the photo of Greg and his granddaughter. It says so much.
Perfect day for gardening in here so started on the front border. My initially well behaved Crocosmia Lucifer had rampaged its way around the bed so out the haul came and tidied it back to a few respectable clumps.
In it’s place I have planted 3 phlomis grown from seed so will keep you posted on how they perform.
Looking good is this cherry, bought from a market stall a few years ago. It’s rather a narrow conical shape so if anybody can tell me the variety that would be great
