Due to the amount of rain and cool temperatures we have had in recent weeks the plants in the Cottage and Big Border have grown quite big and lush but the flowers are being slow to show their faces. The Aquilegia are almost over but the Delphinium and Roses are getting ready to take over in the Cottage Border. On both sides of the path the Geraniums are forming buds and hopefully it will just take a few days of sunshine and warmer temperatures for them to open.
The path from the other end. I have under planted the Cotinus with white Corncockle which may or may not work, we shall see.
The staging is now home to some of the Pelargoniums, Sempervivums, some sun loving alpines and a few late flowering bulbs such as Dichelostemma Ida-Maia. The remaining gone over bulbs will shortly go into the greenhouse under the staging to dry out and I will move the tender succulents out to replace them.
I am pleased with how the ‘Hardy Exotic Border’ is going. There is some filling in to do with smaller plants. I also have a trug full of tulip bulbs from the big pots and I think I am going to plant them out in this border. If they flower, and I know many tulips don’t do well in their second year, then they will bring a colourful splash before the hardy plants get going again.
The Damp Border is filling out with ferns and astible. It isn’t the most photogenic border but one of those that you can appreciate more close up.
The Trough in the front garden also isn’t that photogenic but it was only planted out a month ago and I need to add some pots of tender succulents around the Trough.
For those long-suffering readers that endured last year’s End of Month Views on the front garden here it is now and finally I am enjoying it. I think it just needed another year to bulk up. There are gaps to be filled and some balancing to do but finally it makes me smile when I pull up on the driveway.
Finally the middle path along the top of the Big Border. I should be including a shot of the Patio Border but I am camera-less as the camera I have been borrowing from my son has gone with him to London for the weekend and mine is at the menders. I am very pleased with how well the Big Border has filled out. You wouldn’t believe that this time last year it was only a month old.
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