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Six on Saturday. 21.7.2023
Another week of tidying, weeding, watering and cutting back, the plants are growing so quickly having had rain and sunshine recently. We have only had a little bit of rain this week. but are expecting quite a lot today, whereas … Continue reading
Six on Saturday 23.07.2022
Thank goodness it is a bit cooler, not much some days, but enough so that I don’t feel as though I’m melting! Still no decent amount of rain, we keep getting told that we are going to have thunder storms, … Continue reading
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Tagged agapanthus, Blackbird, Daylily, honesty, hydrangea, Lysimachia ephemerum
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Six on Saturday. 7.8.21
We have had quite a lot of rain this week, everything is growing fast in the few hours of sunshine that we have had. Not much work got done in the garden because of the rain, there will be so … Continue reading
Six on Saturday 31.07.21
After a week of storms and torrential rain with bits of sunshine thrown in between, most of the plants are still upright and looking bright and perky. The two main ones that have been toppled were Crocosmia Lucifer and Miscanthus … Continue reading
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Tagged agapanthus, buddleia, Fuchsia, hydrangea, Hypericum prolificum, Lysimachia ephemerum
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My plant of the moment in late July.
I was amazed when lots of buds suddenly popped up in the border by the driveway. I was delighted when they turned out to be buds of Agapanthus which I had bought many years ago and were being rather slow to … Continue reading
Singing the Blues.
There are three areas in the garden where interest is being held by all the blue flowers that there are. It doesn’t seem to matter what the neighbouring colours are, yellow, orange, pink or white, blue goes with them all.
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Tagged agapanthus, august bulbs, August flowers, blue Clematis, blue flowers, Blue Hydrangeas
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Where has August gone.
The month of August seems to have flown by with not much gardening getting done, due to the heat. The small amount of rain that we have had, has made no difference at all to the overall look of the … Continue reading
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Tagged agapanthus, Asters, bee and butterfly plants, bees, buddleia, butterflies, crocosmia, eupatorium, Evening primrose, kniphofia, Lilies, Penstemon, Rudbeckia, summer flowers, verbena bonariensis
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August Flowers. GBBD.
So far, August has been a bit mixed, weatherwise. We have had lots of hot sunshine but just a small amount of gentle rain which really hasn’t been enough to keep the garden looking happy or the water butts filled. … Continue reading
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Tagged acanthus, agapanthus, Anthemis, astibe, August flowers, buddleia, cardoon, clematis, Cyclamen, Erigeron, Fennel, filipendula, Honeysuckle, hydrangea, hypericum, kniphofia, lily, perovskia, roses, trachelospermum, verbena bonariensis
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August roundup.
Just thought I would do a quick whizz around the garden to record what is still in flower, found there was more than I had anticipated.
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Tagged Aeonium, agapanthus, Allium, Angelica, Anthemis, Arum, astilbe, Buddleja, clematis, Colchicum, Crepis incana, crocosmia, Cyclamen, Dahlia, Echinacae, Erigeron, Eupatorum, Evening primrose, Feverfew, Fuchsia, hydrangea, Inula, Japanese Anemone, Limonium, Liriope muscari, Penstemon, Rosa, Rudbeckia, Stipa, Tulbaghia, Verbascum, Verbena
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Agapanthus – you are beautiful.
My fickle heart turns to other flowers once all my lovely meconopsis have stopped flowering, and at the moment, in a deeper shade of blue are the wonderfully beautiful agapanthus.