My garden, like many, is a busy place at the moment. I’m planting out bedding and tender crops, sowing seeds, keeping the pollinators happy and raising many plants for the school fete and local community garden open day. Today the kids have been sowing radish, carrot, beetroot and planting out marigolds and nasturtiums in their vegetable beds. They’ve also been finding wild flowers and painting our dried pumpkin seeds from last hallowe’en ready to make necklaces in celebration of 30 Days Wild challenge.
So here’s a selection of photos to give a glimpse of #mygardenrightnow – the beautiful bits and the working areas. I’ve been enjoying seeing everyone’s photos this weekend – it’s such a lovely time of year…
Side Garden
Thriving Quince tree (Meeches Prolific) and Potentilla x tonguei groundcover
Lavender just coming into bloom
Soon the Echinops, Perovskis and Verbascum will create a riot of blue and yellow
Binstore Green Roof
Dianthus deltoides, thrift, sedum and thymes – intricate flowers at eye level
Front Garden
At this time of year, the evergreen structure of the garden is subsumed by clouds of summer flowers – here are Geranium ‘Anne Thompson’, Fuchsia ‘Army Nurse’, Lavandula ‘Twickel Purple’ and Rosa ‘Jacqueline du Pre’
Rosa ‘Jacqueline du Pre’ posing for her close-up
Ox-eye Daisy, Snow-in-Summer, Lychnis coronaria, Campanula and Geranium
Working Areas
Bedding plants waiting to be allocated to pots
Plants in waiting – ready to go in the garden and stock plants
This beautiful Sambucus nigra ‘Eva’ is waiting to go in the front garden, but in the meantime, it’s ripe for making pink elderflower cordial…
Some of the plants off to be sold next weekend
Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs
Veggie beds in progress…
Some of my dahlias newly planted out
The fruit cage – nearly ready for raspberry, currant and blueberry harvests
Fruit trees and cornus grove – alas most of the fruitlets were taken by the frost this year
Apple espaliers and the herb beds
My collection of mints, lime balm and lemon verbena for teas
The most hard-working spot – cucurbits, chillies and tomatoes mainly
Perennial vegetable corner – with perennial onion, spring onion, earth chestnut and hardy ginger
Flowerbed
This bed has been left to go a bit wild this year – self-seeded Nigella damescena and Centranthus ruber ‘Albus’ have taken advantage of my lack of attention!
Knautia macedonica and Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’ make a great combination
Clematis ‘Niobe’ is scrambling around at the edge of the bed
Some flowerbed stars
Lots of pots
Love my hostas and Acer palmatum ‘Crimson Queen’
Geranium x oxonianum ‘Walgrave Pink’ peeping out from the hosta pot!
Argyranthemum ‘Grandaisy Pink Halo’ and Artemisia schmedtiana ‘Nana’ just starting to come together
Viola and dahlia by the front door – this area needs work this week…
So that’s My Garden Right Now – a place of laughter and play, with some plants rioting whilst others behave themselves – at least for the moment. We attract pollinators and far too many slugs and snails, we work hard and then drink tea, wine, cordial, eat cupcakes in the sunshine. We come together as a family and celebrate the magic of nature, as seeds germinate, plants grow, then flower, produce fruit or attempt to colonise their neighbours’ space. What a blessing is a garden! 🙂
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Nic Wilson 