A somewhat bedraggled garden for this month’s End of Month View post. I stupidly thought at the weekend, when it was sunny, I’ll take the photos nearer the end of the month as the poppies may have opened. Foolish me! So these photos were taken this morning in drizzle with mist hanging over the hills and this evening we have thunderstorms so no better opportunities have been offered for sunny photos.
The garden continues to surprise me with how well it is doing with little intervention from me. My neglect last year has allowed the plants to establish themselves – a lesson has definitely been learnt – and they have bulked up and are looking wonderful. However, despite the verdant borders there are lots of weeds creeping in and tidying up to do especially on the pot front.
Having seen so many wonderful pot displays in Austin I was ashamed of my paltry attempts on my return especially as many were weed laden or even dead! I have started sorting them out and have made some progress which is very satisfying but not enough to share here.
Oh and if you look closely you can see evidence of my other challenge at the moment – the dandelions which are everywhere. At least the rain last weekend made it easier to dig them up in the front garden. I now need to tackle the back garden. I also need to make a note of those plants that are crowding others and come up with a list of divisions etc I need to do in the Autumn – a limited list as I don’t want to loose the full nature of the borders.
So this is my soggy garden at the end of May – a month whose high temperatures early on, following on from a wet spring, and now more rain has created a very pleasing effect.
If you would like to join in with the End of Month View you are very welcome, you don’t even have to do it every month, just whenever. All I ask is you link to this blog post and leave a link in the comments box below linking to your post and that way we can find each other.
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