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Garden Diary – Let’s get you up to date!
You may have noticed by the lack of contact, that I am really struggling to keep up with the blog at the moment. As well as the usual work, and gardening, the house renovations are keeping me rather busy and away from the computer! I have good intentions each week of sharing my gardening goings on with you, but before I know it another week has whizzed by! So, I’ve had an idea of how to keep you up to date with the garden until my life gets back to normal. In hopeful optimism that it will! Each morning I do manage a brief post on social media, occasionally two…
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Heatwave – Monsoon. How the Flowers coped
It’s been a strange year for flowers, some came and went so quickly as a result of the heatwaves and generally hot summer. Quite disappointing when you’re looking forward to seeing them. Others like Ligularia ‘Desdemonas’ huge leaves kept wilting, but then revived with a small amount of water and went on to flower. The Walnut’s drunk all the Water Lots of the mid-summer perennials just didn’t reach their usual size. The thalictrum being the most obvious down in the white garden. It only reached about half the normal height, with very few flowers. I suppose it’s not that surprising that quite a few plants in the white garden have…
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Catching-Up With The White Garden – Part 2
The White garden is at the very end, where it eventually goes to a point. It is split in two by a central path, dividing the white shrub border on the left and the perennial border on the right. The Holly Border – White Perennials The right border has the holly hedge running down the side of it. This means we had to plant perennials on that side, so that they die back in the winter. Allowing us access for the annual hedge trim. Conditions in this border are quite tricky, because it’s dry from the hedge. It’s also reasonably shaded as it faces North West. Although I do believe…
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Catching-up with the White Garden – Part 1
Five years on from the first flowers being planted. The white garden is now needing a bit of a sort out. As with any new garden, or just new border, some things work out and some things don’t! You need to give plants a few seasons to see if they settle. Some plants need to put their roots down before they start to grow properly. This usually means after a couple of years of underperforming, I have a stern talk to them. It goes a bit like, “ok, one more year, if you don’t do anything between now and then, you’re out!” I’d say eight times out of ten, it…
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Happy Birthday Walnut Kitchen Garden
This week, marks twelve months since I started this garden blog. Is it me or is time going faster! It’s gone by so quickly. I’ve had such an enjoyable time, writing about the garden each week. And as I have done research for a number of the topics, I’ve leaned a great deal too. To celebrate our first anniversary. I’m going to take you back through the original garden transformation series. And show you where we’re up to today. If you’d like to read any of them again, just press on the titles. Part 1 – Let’s get stuck into the garden makeover! In part one, we did nothing but strip…
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The White garden
Garden transformation Part 13 – Flowers at last! When I first started gardening, all my favourite flowers were white. Although as like many newbie gardeners, I initially relied on other gardeners giving me free plants that they had split. These were of course made up of all colours and I soon came to appreciate the importance of colour in the garden. Now I can’t imagine the garden without the areas of bright contrasting colours. I certainly wouldn’t have contemplated a white garden unless I had space for both. You get so much inspiration from other gardeners and when the late Christopher Lloyd started appearing regularly on Gardeners World from his…
