Garden Snap Shots!
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I have been doing a bit of research. I succumbed to some Globe Artichoke and Florence Fennel plants yesterday, thinking they would look nice in our long flower border, and give us something tasty to eat as well. Six plants each. I don’t think the Fennel is going be too much of an issue, but the plants are going to have to go in containers, as the little blighters have a habit of self seeding all over😱 The Globe Artichokes need a 3ft planting space each and will get to 6ft plus, so, going to be difficult to fit them into border, it’s crammed already. Anyone got six huge planters spare🤣🤣🤣 That’ll teach me to impulse buy🤭
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The Montana Clematis has been in flower for a week or two now and looks really good. It grows along almost the entire length of our side fence facing out onto the road. The flowers on the road side of the fence take longer to come out as it faces almost north.
David
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@DavidKlyne we have a pair of them, and although not as far on as yours the one out in the open is nearly in full bloom while the other is sheltered by the house, but looks to the north east and is further behind.
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@nelliethehooker I have another Clematis in the front garden which I think is still a Montana but a different variety and whilst a few flowers are out its way behind the one in the back garden. When it comes out I will try and post a picture.
David
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@DavidKlyne we have lost a couple over this winter and we have another at the front of the house which sprouts each year but suffers badly from wind damage.
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I had the same Clematis when we lived in Somerset and it got a bit rampant so had to prune it down to about 2 feet from the ground and it grew just as well the next year.
Putting some photos on here of some plants in the garden as I have more out at this time of year before the heat arrives.
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This is our Clematis, growing nicely over a juniper Bush.
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I seem to have a love hate relationship with Hosta's!!! Just purchased a new a few days ago and repotted it and would you believe signs of it being eaten. Not really sure what's doing it as I put some slug pellets (I know!) around the base of the plant but no evidence of slugs or snails. I have another Hosta which is just starting to grow which seem much more resilient. At least both Clematis Montana, different varieties, are flowering well. The first picture is the road side of the one I posted a few days ago and the second is in the front garden and it flowers just a bit later than the one in the back.
David
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@DavidKlyne not as established as yours, but I think we have the same Clematis, Montana Broughton Star, a lovely deepish pink double Montana. I had it climbing up a support, and kept it from invading our hedge, but now the hedge is no more, I have just put up some wires along the fence, and this year it will be free to roam. We have put a bird box up so that it gets surrounded, hopefully we shall get residents. I love this Clematis, it cost £3.99 from Aldi. I was looking at one yesterday in a garden centre, and it was £19.99. A true Aldi bargain😁
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Photo siz8ng still isn’t working for me, sorry.
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Busy pricking out seedlings here at the moment. Going to have lots of Blackball Scabious, Hollyhocks, Cosmos, Amberboa, and Nasturtiums. Plus have Delphiniums, Tomatoes, Chives, Lemon Basil due to make an appearance.🤞
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Not our garden shot but of one that caught my eye, and is situated in front of one of the site's assistants' caravan.
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Very nice. Don’t think I have seen a water feature outside an awning before, but given my obsession with plants, we often had a small garden outside our van when at Marazion, and I had been tempted by the roadside sales in Cornwall. I once fetched two rather large Banana plants home, they lived in bathroom when travelling🤭 It’s not quite as easy with the MH, as we tend to move more. I came home from Bolton Abbey site one early December with our Thule box loaded with lovely Xmas greenery. Lots of trees down in a storm so I just collected some from the boarded walk that is opposite Site entrance. It made the house smell really nice and piney.
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I've not seen a water feature outside an awning, but then the warden stays longer 😉..I often had collections of plants outside, they travelled in the bathroom. Plants must be bought when seen, chances of finding exactly the same after takes time and effort!
LLovely Blooms there @Freddy55
My perennial sweetpea is looking fabulous.
It's so dry I can't even pull my forget me nots out 🫣. I have so many plants to put in, this was to the be the spring to fill the borders. Wanted to wait to see where the daffs were before digging holes! If it doesn't rain soon it won't happen whilst the leaves are still visible.
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We have been away on a 3 month trip in our MH and in that time, the local Muntjac deer have found a way into our rear garden which is fenced off with a 5 ft perimeter fence. Looks like we're going to have to raise our defences !
The Muntjac have also ravaged our front garden to the extent that most of our shrubs and laurel hedging have been stripped bare of branches up to about a metre in height.
This has been the worst year since we moved here (26 years and counting) and is so disheartening. Even so-called "deer proof" plants - like genista and pyracantha - are not immune.
I have planted conifers, grasses, herbs and hellebores which seem to fare better, but I do miss having flowers.
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@JimE thats disheartening 😕 It’s nice having wildlife around, but sometimes it can get very destructive. We have lots of Wood Pigeons and Collared Doves, they poo everywhere. And I seldom plant many bulbs as our resident squirrels treat them like a McDonalds, snacks everywhere.
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”My perennial sweetpea is looking fabulous.”
Yes, @Bakers2 , I agree. I’ve never grown the perennial type. What do you have to do with them? Do you have to cut them right back at the end of the season? Do you just let them get on with it? I assume they flower over a reasonable period as long as you keep cutting the flowers?
Blimey @JimE , I think I’d be pulling my hair out, not your usual pest.
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We have a perennial sweet pea as well, nothing like as far on as yours though @Bakers2 but lots of growth, so it’s going to do well again. We inherited it with the house, over 40 years ago. It grows, flowers, dies back, I cut off the growth in Winter and it re emerges again each year. Tough as old boots🤭 I have actually cultivated and planted some annual Swweetpeas this year, they are doing fine, looking forward to seeing these, as one is supposed to be a dark blue variety called Nelson. Seeds from Easton Walled Garden, which has a fabulous sweet pea growing history. Will get some photos when in flower.
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Obviously not our garden but those at Ballendalloch Castle. This is the right time to seeing I think, but the rose garden will no doubt be well worth a visit in the summer months.
The rock garden.
The walk to the Rose Garden
In the Rose Garden
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This is our lovely Alberic Barbiere Rose in all its current glory………. It has a fantastic first flush of flowers, then continues to flower right up to the first frosts.
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our new fence is slowly disappearing behind the plants I have put in now. A Clematis Montana still doing well, Sweetpeas are climbing well, a new rose is budding up and starting to head North, and my wonderful Crambe Cordifolia has survived being dug out, split up and replanted……both pieces have taken well, and now in flower. Not quite as big as usual, but still impressive considering it was just the size of a parsnip in late March!
The Crambe is the white stuff, it’s backed by some Hollyhocks. I have staked it now to stop it leaning. No resident in the bird box yet, but I think once the clematis has covered it more, it will get a tenant! All our other boxes are in use.
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Again not our garden, obviously, but of that at the House of Duns. I think that tda and @Freddy55, as well as others, would fine it interesting.
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@Freddy55 what a stunning garden👏👏 Something different around every corner. That is some onion🤩
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Thanks. It was pretty much overgrown when we moved in, so it took a lot of hard work As you can see it was quite narrow but was around 225ft long. Its shape leant itself to creating a series of ‘rooms’ with a meandering path. It took a while, but I was really pleased with the results. Not shown are the Koi pond I built and a 13’x10’ wooden (expensive!) greenhouse I inherited from my dad. I wish we still had a garden like that.
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@Freddy55 love your last garden. What's your new one like and how long have you had it?
Not much happening garden wise here, bad foot, bad back 🥲😡. Our monthly garden help poorly so didn't come Friday, so I still have about 50 plants to go in! Have managed veg beds. Had them installed, 3 sleepers high, didn't think I'd be needing them so soon 😂. A local.farmer advertised raw sheep fleece, £3. Since I'd used 'slug gone' sheep pellets last year and was pleased, I brought more £13, before she advertised. Yesterday I managed to put the sheep fleece around runners, tomatoes and cucumber. Goes a long way, loads left. Taking some to my neighbour to try later. She came round with 3 tomatoes and 2 cucumbers - planted them for me too!
The first of my opium poppies is stunning. And from a distance, it looks like a rose. It's just
beginning to go over now but lots more self seeded to come, stunted with the dry conditions.
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