A walk around my garden

Hi,

It seems ages since I did a walk around my garden,  and as I have not a lot to put on my blog,  I thought I would do a walk,  the first walk this year,  the weather this year has been the best,  a wet winter, wet spring followed by a wet summer,  it’s been around or below average temperatures so that has not helped either.  With Vernon out of action as well,  and having to do everything the garden has suffer even more, so please don’t look too hard,  the weeds grow faster than the plants.

The picture above is a new lily bulb I brought in the spring called Viva La Vida and it’s striking colours,  brought some sunshine to the garden.

 

This is my yellow day lilies,  I have some in orange too,  but they went over before I could get a picture of them.

this is a hebe,  I found this growing in the gravel it’s not a seedling from my garden and the birds must have dropped to,  and it grow,  so I transplanted into a better spot,  it has pale purple flowers.  A nice gift via a bird.

This is my pink Hebe,  this is a cutting which I took of another Hebe,  originally I planted a Hebe,  to go over my dogs grave in my mothers garden and then I took cuttings,  I call it Shona’s bush,  as I have no idea what name it should have.

This is Evening primrose,  they are a pain really,  they seed themselves where they want to be,  not necessarily where I want them,  if I try and transplant them they die,  so I tend to leave them,  well one or two depending where they came up, and pull the rest up,  this year they have grown very tall,  the flowers only last about a day.

This is very pretty plant,  lovely pink flowers,  I have no idea what’s it’s called,  but it’s really a front of border plant.

These are beautiful orange flowers,  I saw these when we stayed in Weymouth and collected a few seeds,  which I have been able to grow, again,   They do tend to self seed themselves which is fine,  I  have no idea what they are called.

This is a bush Fuchsia called Lena Dalton,  I brought this plant in the spring and I am very pleased with it,  in the pot beside is my Nerines,  they flower in the autumn,  I put the bulbs in the pot last year,  I have plenty of leaves hoping for some flowers in the autumn.

I forgot this is my marrows,  I love marrows,  I thought I would try to grow one,  ha ha lots of flowers but the veg,  they just seem to start to grow and then rot,  might be the weather,  who knows,  but I don’t think it’s going to give me any marrows,   My tomatoes and runners beans are not as good this year either.

Well that’s a quick walk around the garden,  the photos have been taken over the last two months,  

Hope you enjoyed your walk

Margaret