Just a quick postscript to my last post - things are sprouting and flowering and all that. Here are just a few additional photos.
An old friend, always welcome; our white lilac, Madame Lemoine, is a lovely thing, but you have to be quick to catch it at its best - not quite in full flower yet, but the first heavy shower will wreck it!
Vigorous signs of being ready to go again - our Cotinus is a bit of a monster (in a very nice way)
The little red apple tree (with red blossom, and red fruit with bright red flesh) is looking good. The dry summer last year gave us quite a lot of apples, but they were small and as tough as conkers - I hope the wasps enjoyed them...
Appropriate alpines have been planted in the pockets in the old herb garden - I have a little spreadsheet which tells me what they all are...
...to keep the Professor happy, they are (from the far end round to the left): dianthus (Inchriach Dazzler); arenaria (montana); armeria (maritima Deep Rose); sedum (Cape Blanco); campanula (Blue Clips); oxalis (adenophylla); phlox (McDaniel's Cushion); Delosperma (Table Mountain); erodium (Bishops Form)
Lovely scenes Tony. I love the apple tree.
ReplyDeleteLooking lovely, the little apple tree is particularly nice.
ReplyDeleteYes, lovely. I find the old herb garden very interesting.
ReplyDeleteSo neat and tidy, unlike our weed inspired wonderland!!
ReplyDeleteThank you all gentlemen - you are very kind. This is a serious fightback on my part - we've had too many years of the weed wonderland here - too many of the big gardening jobs have been dictated by trees threatening walls or the drains, or hedges blowing down, or things just generally going wrong as our nice low-maintenance garden outgrew itself and evolved into something horrifying. If I could find some way of getting 75% of the wood pigeon population to go to live somewhere else that would also be a major breakthrough.
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