Posted in Garden, tagged August, Flower Garden, keyhole bed on August 28, 2008 | 24 Comments »
Today I was putting a few plants into one of the newly dug borders that we have made this year. I was thinking about how I go about re-planting a flower bed – or a whole garden for that matter.
This is what the “Keyhole bed” looked like in 2006 when we moved into the house.
I [...]
Posted in Garden, tagged August, water lilly, wordless wednesday. on August 27, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Wordless Wednesday – Pink Water Lilly
Posted in Garden, tagged bad weather on August 26, 2008 | 18 Comments »
I get quite fed up with “Nature”
The strong winds broke my Canna – so this year I wont be seeing this
These
Are doing this …..
This ornamental cabbage
Now looks like this ….
Because of these …..
This years Rudbeckia is a pale shadow of what I had hoped for …
Based on last year
And devastatingly this …..
Now looks like this [...]
Posted in Garden, tagged hardlandscaping on August 25, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Shedman and I have worked quite hard this year – clearing three bits of our garden. I have been looking for a “before” photo of the area we have cleared this past week. To my surprise – I didn’t take any! I think that I thought this bit of the garden was so unusable that [...]
Posted in Garden, tagged wordless wednesday. on August 20, 2008 | 25 Comments »
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Garden, tagged seeds on August 17, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Spurred on by the comments of Zoe, James A.S. and HappyMouffetard, I have decided I will enter my “flower arrangement” in the show.
If you don’t know about the Emsworth Village Show it is on now – until the 30th August. It has been organized by Emmat – and it is in conjunction with VP’s Water [...]
Posted in Garden, tagged charity, open garden on August 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An open garden
Especially if it is
VP’s (Virtual) Open Garden
If you have some time over the next few days – I can recommend you visit VP’s Open Garden.
VP has been working very hard and has opened her garden to raise money for WATER AID, and you can go – even if its raining!
One word of warning [...]
Posted in Garden, tagged Garden bloggers bloom day on August 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
It is the 15th of the month – which means it is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – hosted by Carol at May Dreams Garden.
I cannot flower arrange for toffee, but currently blooming in my garden are Cosmos “Purity”, Painted Sage, Sweet Peas, Thyme, Hardy Fuchsia, Verbena Bonariensis, Dark Mint, Cardoon, Echinops, Eschscholzia, Lavender, Garlic chives, [...]
Posted in Garden, tagged flowers, wordless wednesday. on August 13, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Wordless Wednesday – Ligularia dentata “Desdemona”
Posted in Garden on August 11, 2008 | 17 Comments »
We have had a wonderful time with my sons and their partners visiting – so I took the opportunity to use them to make the draw to celebrate my 10,000 visitor to this blog. Shedman has a new sidekick – who oversaw the whole process.
And the winner is Niels – So many congratulations to Niels [...]
