What is the red flower?

It has been raining all week. Some new red flowers have arrived but I don't know what they are. They are in the plants at the left of the grasses but also one smaller plant on the right - which is where you can see the flower in the second picture.

My new seeds finally arrived this week (after a month) so i really need to plant them quickly but it won't stop raining and I've been too busy at work. Hopefully I'll get a bit of time at the weekend. I've got some to go in amongst the grasses. I was planning to plant these before the grasses grew - but as you can see they've already started! I've also got some foxgloves and larkspur to go at the back.

The sweet peas have began to shoot in the bed I planted and the stocks are definitely ready to be thinned out a bit I think.

We've had rain this week - look how the garden grows!

I'm going to have to work out how to thin the stock seedlings out soon. I put a whole packet in one row as i didn't realise how many seeds there were. I think its about 750! It says thin them out when they are ready - but i don't know when that is. My dad said when they are an inch or two and they have really grown this week.

I really like these pink flowers. They must have been in the bed before i moved here. They've never really come up this much before but i cleared a lot of ivy out of this bed the first year and lots of bind weed last year and earlier this year so hopefully that is why they are growing so well.

The gladioli bulbs are growing as well. I think the ones i put in a line will look a bit silly. My mum has now told me about growing them in clumps. I'll do that next year! The ones near the clementis should look better.

The plants i planted last weekend look OK. They are meant to be a in a sheltered spot and i thought they were. However, as the back fence has been cleared by the park gardener a wind comes wiping across the park and into that back bed so they've been rather blown about this week. I hope they will be OK.

I need to plant more at the back bed. I ordered some seeds about three weeks ago to go there but they still have not arrived. I also need to get the fence mended so I probably should do that before I plant more.

1st may

The sunny bed I'm creating

At the front is Lobelia. There is then stock seed. I poured the whole packet in by accident so I will have to work out how and when to thin these out at some point. There are then some Gladioli bulbs. I didn't realise at the time it is best to put them in clumps so they are in a row and might look a bit funny. Live and learn. At the back, there is a bush in the middle. It is really pretty but I think I have killed it by pruning it to much at the wrong time. So I'll see if that grows again! Then too either side are sweetpeas. I made little wig wams - but they won't be big enough. I'll need to get some bigger sticks soon. I planted all this bed in April, the week of 16th April I think.