Wednesday 23 April 2014

BLOSSOM, GARDEN, GREENHOUSE, HOUSE PLANTS AND PUP


Lovely cherry blossom


Worth a closer look.


Choisya Aztec Pearl one of many cuttings that have been passed along to friends and family.


Hosta bed dressed to protect from slugs as slug pellets a no no with a puppy although we need to watch she doesn't chew the stones to. The pots of Agapanthus Cowslip and Acer en route elsewhere as the Hosta leaves grow.


A lovely borrowed landscape from my neighbour of Elizabeth Montana Clematis, Apple blossom and the trees from the woods beyond.


A new trellis across the bottom of the vegetable patch, Rambling Rector pruned hard back with a variety of rose shrubs and clematis to grow up it and spring planting in the border. Plus beans hardening off before planting out.


More trellis between the Greenhouse and Delphiniums with clematis and Sanders white rose to grow along it.


Tomato plants with pots to hold newspaper at night when frost is threatened.


Sweet peas and Dahlias brought out from overwintering in a frost free garage.


Lilies and Nerines and trays of plants for hanging baskets - I'm not upto growing hanging basket plants from seed.



What to do with water buts that leak. They make useful pots when cut in half. I grow my sweet peas in these because I run out of garden space, they get some shade from the hedge and they are easy to pick for the house. They now have large wigwams to climb up which also keeps the cats out!


A reminder to me to put more bulbs in my box beds that border the central path. Mostly daffodils need planting here but also tulips in other beds.


I love this red plant and can't remember it's name any offers or I must trawl Mr Google later.


Lots more little box plants that my daughter grew and decided she didn't want - I nursed them along and decided to fill in some gaps, guess what a few weeks later daughter had second thoughts and decided she wanted some box edging after all. We compromised with some larger plants from the other end of the bed and more cuttings for another year.
A dear friend years ago gave me some plants with a warning about the wild onion - I laughed and said oh that's nice - I am afraid now I have experienced how it spreads I think differently.  Can you just see it in this bed and I only weeded it a few weeks ago.



Banksie Banksie Rose a lovely sight and one of the first to flower.


Montana Elizabeth Clematis slow to start but yes I know how much it will spread in time.


I have had this Dendrobium Orchid for many years this is the best ever flowering so you could say I finally cracked it, providing the right conditions in the summer months outside but not too much shade. The perfume is so powerful that it gets moved out of the room when visitors come, you just can't sit in the same room it is so overwhelming.


This Wardian Case was a gift and has been fun to plant up.


It inspired me to re plant the Bottle garden.


Meg having a rest in her activity playground.


Meg resting before chewing more of my plants. Mike asked me to remove all the poisonous plants from the garden so Meg wouldn't be sick. I laughed when I looked at the list - it would mean removing nearly every plant. With care hopefully we will stop her eating anything that will make her sick, we managed to do so with the other three dogs we have had.

9 comments:

  1. Meg is so adorable and see even has her own playground. Your garden is lovely with lots of plants, your cherry blossom is beautiful and don´t forget the Dendrobium orchid, in our country not easily to keep. I love springtime, wish you happy gardening.

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  2. Oh my goodness, what a lovely time I had here in your gardens this morning. I just love those cherry blossoms.

    Meg is adorable.

    Happy gardening ~ FlowerLady

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  3. what else to say then wow.. such a nice garden... i just started mine for this year so i hope for more sunny days ...
    p.s. ill be your regular reader :)

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  4. Hi Joanne,

    Thanks for the stroll through your garden. Just what I needed after another day of snow

    Alison

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    1. Hi Alison nice to hear from you and sorry I was slow in picking up your comments. It worked after all.

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  5. I can almost smell the flowers from here

    Alison

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  6. I'm a new follower of your blog, glad I found your page. What a lovely garden you have! I love your green house and the tomato plants, it's my dream to own a green house someday. I love planting vegetables from seeds and I'm trying to grow everything at the moment, ha ha! Your choisya Aztec pearl, rose and clematis are beautiful. I look forward to reading your posts. Have a great week!

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  7. Absolutely beautiful, I'm a huge, very impressed. Garden dreams. Greenhouse is my dream, and there is, as I wanted ... the sea of inspiration!

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