My garden is my Happy Place. When I go down to get the newspapers first thing in the morning I love checking the garden to see what has come up and what needs cutting back, removing or weeding.
I like the way it changes day by day. Here are some plants from today's garden:
Cucumbers - Lebanese and apple
Tomatoes from a neighbour - she wasn't sure what variety. one of two that she grows.
I also have two plants of a small bush tomatoe that I got at the Market.
Sugar snap peas doing well
Rhodohypoxis - I can remember buying this in Thames - would be about 30 - 40 years ago.
The garden alongside the drive - more yellow at present
I do like this Echium Cottage Charm which has self-sown through the garden this year.
One of several Alstroemerias
This lavendar got a hammering and split in the last storm but we have staked it and have our fingers crossed that it will survive
I like these little poppies
I don't know the name of this - it came from a neighbour who got it from another neighbour
The lovely red rose that we have several of throughout the garden
I love this little old fashioned alstroemeria. I call it the Christmas one.
Before we left for France last May, I planted a few Cavallo Nero plants. They are still there but tiny. We might eventually get a few leaves from them. I miss Haddock's.
ReplyDeleteIt seems amazing that there is no way for you to spend longer in France if you really wanted to.
DeleteWe could but we're fine as we are. Our gardener seems to be doing a good job, so all should be well next year.
DeleteA beautiful sight to have each day
ReplyDeleteIt is doing well at present. I love it.
DeleteYour garden is full of colour and the great promise of harvest to come, which is a joy to as see our gardens here in UK, have all started to fade until next year.
ReplyDeleteBut you have lovely autumn colour which we don't get a lot of.
DeleteGreat to see such colour when our flowers are shutting down for the winter. The plant you don't know the name of looks a bit like Bladder Campion which grows here as a wildflower.
ReplyDeleteIt looks similar, John, but I looked it up and I don't think it is. We have a plantswoman who comes on the Parkinson walks. She is away at present but I must remember to ask her when she returns.
DeleteYour garden looks a very happy place. It must really lift your spirits wandering through it
ReplyDeleteWe enjoy sitting on our bench facing the pond.
DeleteYour garden is a delight and would certainly be the Happy Place of many, I suspect, were they to visit you.
ReplyDeleteI've just purchased a handful of plants from a local nursery specializing in local flora. Lupine, coastal sage, wax myrtle...I just have to figure out where they will all go. I may have purchased more than I have room for!
That is always my problem. I think it is every gardener's problem :)
DeleteI would love to grow Echium here but I think the frost would kill it, such a grand plant though.
ReplyDeleteThis echium is a bushy one and appears to be an annual but seeds everywhere. Egmont have the seeds.
DeleteBeautiful blog
ReplyDeleteLovely to see all this colour and growth as I plunge into winter! Very cheering, Susan.
ReplyDeleteComing from you, that is high praise.
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