The garden

Yes i know the lawn needs mowing but the rest is looking ok.

New plants

I planted these on sunday. It was a lovely sunny day after 2 days of really bad rain. I spent quite a while tiding up the garden.

Back from holidays

Well there was no danger about the garden drying up whilst we were away. It has pretty much rained non stop for two weeks. It is sunny today though.

One new flower in the garden. The white "fast growing" tobacco plant I planted near the Christmas tree.









My gladioli do not look good at all. The leaves are shredded. And none of the seeds i planted straight in the soil have done much at all.

The beds near the house have exploded though - with lots of pretty pink flowers.

Plus near the back the silvery plant has a few yellow flowers on it. Not sure what this is.











We saw lots of foxgloves in Scotland which i really like. I will need to do seedlings and mini green houses next year i think.

Scottish thistle

As i can't blog my own garden this week here is some local flora

17th June

I took these photos before I went away on 17th June.

Pirton Open Gardens

I went to visit my mum and dad today and the village had open gardens so I got to go and have a nose around some beautiful country gardens. Although not open to the public we started off in the best garden of all with a bar-b-q - my mum and dads!

Bonsai

Pretty pink flowers

The sun is back

After a week of rain the sun came out on Friday and it has been lovely this weekend. Been in the gardening tidying up the beds. The slugs have got to the hosta after all.

These pictures are from the 23rd (Wednesday). It was nice weather at the start of the week. I bought a sprinkler to keep the plants watered on friday and then it started raining and hasn't stoped since. My rain butt I ordered about a month ago still hasn't come. Well it was delivered when i wasn't here and they took it back and broke it and don't have another one. I'm also still waiting for the fence man to get back to me. Mainly becuase there is a shortage of fence panels and he can't get any replacement ones.

So I haven't been in the garden this weekend as it has been raining and I've been painting my door. On Wednesday I tried to thin out and replant the stocks but I'm not sure how sucessfully I've done this.

I had great plans to sow lots of wild flowers in with the grasses, but I was running out of time and the grasses were growing, so I've done it in a very unproper way so I'm not sure if any of the flowers will grow. In with the grasses I've aimed to put some lurkspur seeds at the back and then marigolds, daisies, pansies, scabious and poppies.

The red plant is a paeonie (peony) I've been told.