Doesn’t it feel like the beginning of the gardening season? Hardcore gardeners have probably been at it for weeks but cliche that I am, I did most of it over the Easter weekend. It’s all kicking off now so I dare say I’ll be back quite soon with yet more pictures of plants. I’ve always grown them from seed in the past but completely forgot this year. I cheated and bought a pot of ten sweet pea babies. There’s no smell either but I hope that their fragrant sisters will soon get a move on a do some growing. The flowers are beautiful although they’re more Audrey 2 than sweet pea. I’ve got purple mangetout too! The packet says shiraz, which makes me want to drink wine. So much prettier than runner red or the white of the usual frenchies. We have baby beans! But it is the purpleness of the flowers that puts a smile on my face. So much purple stuff this year! I’ve been watching the dwarf french bean flowers come out. I’ve done some weeding, which has made it look less tatty than this.Īnd then there’s the veg. I might chop back the whole lot as it’s drowning a geranium. The rain also quashed the lupins and enticed slugs and snails towards my hostas. It was huge! Of course, it was battered by the rain.
It goes nicely with the double petalled feverfew (there was a rogue one that cropped up years ago, I made sure to collect the seeds and now there’s tonnes of the stuff).ĭuring the first week of June, my rambling rose was phenomenal. It could even be the survivor of two summers ago when my mum brought me over three plugs from Sarah Raven. I did a test between shop bought seeds and collected seeds. Speedwell en masse is terrific but just look at that anagallis! It’s wonderful. It was all lopped back two or three years ago and it has done it the world of good. The honeysuckle has never looked so good. They looked very proud of themselves when they were at their peak. Although it’s all gone a bit straggly over the years, I still love my garden space. I have finally planted out some annuals and while I wait for those to impress me, I’ve got some perennials in flower and one or two surprise self seeders. How is your garden? Did it benefit from all the rain?! Everything looks lovely and lush in my little cottage style garden. It’s sunny! The sun has come back! I was worried there for a minute. Ps, check out the Garden tab over on the right and you can see what the garden looks like at other times of year. Jobs to do: have a bonfire, empty pots (hide contents in beds?), plant more broad beans (first lot rotted), weed, plant runner beans & peas (sow direct? …Maybe not, there’s cat poo in that bed). I’m amazed they’re alive, I’m amazed they came up at all! I left them in the little plastic grow house and only just checked on them for the first time this week. Me and the youngest boy planted these on a rare sunny day at end of Jan/beg of Feb. One feeble, scentless bloom appeared and made me realise how much I must have these as part of my summer garden. Sweet peas! Last year I forgot to plant them and bought some baby plants from the garden centre (the shame). I can now clearly see the effects of gradual degradation, it’s time to pull my finger out. I have distant memories past claims that I’d give them a new lease of life but this time I mean it. I have spent too many years just scraping off the top layer of soil generally doing a half arsed job at looking after them. The ones that aren’t broken need to be emptied, given new compost and have new plants gifted to them. Frost, innit?! I need to get rid of so many pots.
I’m quite pleased that it’s happy to make a return.Ī lot of the pots look like this this year. Behind the white anemone is the pulmonaria I put in last year. So far I haven’t but that’s because jelly is gross. Every time it fruits I plan on making jelly. Lots of flowers are on the quince (chaenomeles). A few stems are flowering orange pompoms but I’m scratching my head as to why the rest of it decided not to bother to show up to the party. Most of the kerria japonica is brown twigs. I also like its wintery stars when it’s not in flower. I really hope it takes off properly as it has the most beautiful blue flowers. The magnolia and clematis seem to be going strong.
Whilst I work up the gusto to get out there properly let’s celebrate the stuff that’s growing all by itself. There are leggy things and dead things that need chopping or pulling up, and I think I need to get a bonfire going to get rid of things too twiggy to compost. I’m also avoiding going out there as it needs a massive spring clean. I’ve spent very little time in the garden so far this year I’m definitely a fair weather gardener. And it’s kind of warm if you’re on the move! What with all the recent snow, wind and rain, the sun is most welcome. The sun is properly out for the first time in ages.
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