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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 10, 2014 19:54:28 GMT
The garden has been a great source of comfort this year, I didn't really get cracking until quite late but it's quite lush now and filling up with flowers. calendula 'Indian Prince' flower bed...the dangly-blobby ones are sanguisorba salvia 'indigo' a little species pelargonium bedding echiums, agastache golden jubilee etc ammi poached egg plant and lavender
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 10, 2014 20:06:45 GMT
and there's more rudbeckia echinacea just opening...echiums and veronica trifolium rubens, salvia dyson's joy etc salvias; hotlips and indigo thalictrum (sp) chaos...the big flower bed... French Marigold, lavender etc another shot of the flower bed that'll do for now...
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Post by fumobici on Jul 10, 2014 20:47:13 GMT
Lovely. I don't whether it's the culture, the climate, in the DNA or just my personal tastes, but nobody can garden like the English. This being a fine, fine example of what I mean. Thank you.
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Post by htmb on Jul 10, 2014 21:31:31 GMT
A really beautiful feast for the eyes, Cheery!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 0:53:06 GMT
Just stunning Cheery !!!!!( and btw, great to see you!!). A true feast for the eyes. So many gorgeous specimens, many I have never seen and likely wouldn't here.( The "poached egg" plant is to die for as are many others). I think Fumobici is correct in his assessment if the English gardener seemingly inherent talent for lovely, lovely gardens. Thanks for sharing these with us.
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Post by bjd on Jul 11, 2014 6:35:49 GMT
Not only a gardening tradition but enough rain and not too much heat. Of course, cpb's green thumbs are an advantage to making such a lovely garden.
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Post by mich64 on Jul 11, 2014 14:50:30 GMT
Hi Cheery! Beautiful photos of your beautiful garden.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 17:51:04 GMT
Your garden is fantastic as ever, Cheery. But I am wondering if there is any sturdy plant to console you in the depth of winter when all of the flowers are gone. Most of what you have shown must just be a withered ruin when frost comes.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 11, 2014 20:46:55 GMT
Thank you for your kind comments. Kerouac...I've never mastered the art of successional gardening really...I get flowers from early spring onwards but do have a few that flower in the winter too. This one is a delight, coronilla. It flowers pretty much all year round apart from late June - September, it has a glorious scent too. Some of the ferns are evergreen and look good even when covered in snow I usually plant up tubs with bellis daisies, violets and pansies that often hold their flowers through the autumn and winter then there are grasses, heathers and heucheras that at least look interesting over the winter. However...the flower bed is usually pretty bare over winter. Just seed heads and the basal foliage of dormant perennials...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 21:32:06 GMT
What a wonderful garden, cheery. Brits and Canadians in my part of the world have very similar climates, and your successes give me hope. We too have pansies and daisies that overwinter, and of course, heather is always nice. I look forward to more!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2014 5:00:35 GMT
Oh Cheery! Every time you show pics of your garden, I just goggle at your brilliant color combinations. That species pelargonium with the dusty miller, as just one example -- gorgeous! I love the way you fill up your gardening spaces, too -- no timid dabs for you, but a bold and generous canvas. Beautiful, beautiful, inspired garden!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 12, 2014 9:46:38 GMT
Us British do like to moan about the weather but it's the temperate climate that allows us to grow things that wouldn't survive harsher winters or very strong sunshine. We have just been through a mild, wet winter and are currently in the midst of a spate of hot sunny days with the occasional downpour. My OH says that the reason everything is so lush in our garden is because of the squillions of £s that I've spent on compost over the years..but what does he know? Bixa! darling girl you always say the RIGHT thing it's luck dearie....a happy accident, there is lots of foliage to help things to blend harmoniously.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 12, 2014 19:45:39 GMT
more snaps taken today cornflower sweetly scented heliotrope cerinthe echinacea sunflower 'earthwalker' one of my dahlias veronica and echiums tagette
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 19:46:48 GMT
Cheery, isn't the first one a nigella damascena?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 19:56:11 GMT
Nobody should be allowed to have so many flowers, CPB. In revolutionary France, your garden would be confiscated and opened to the public for their enjoyment. However, if you were not guillotined, you might be rehired to do the gardening for the masses.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 12, 2014 19:57:01 GMT
yep..you got me Lizzyfaire.....but we also call them cornflowers.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 12, 2014 20:01:54 GMT
Nobody should be allowed to have so many flowers, CPB. In revolutionary France, your garden would be confiscated and opened to the public for their enjoyment. However, if you were not guillotined, you might be rehired to do the gardening for the masses. >simpers<
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Post by htmb on Jul 12, 2014 20:54:53 GMT
Absolutely adore your garden and admire your green thumb, cheery.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 21:11:09 GMT
yep..you got me Lizzyfaire.....but we also call them cornflowers. Ah, you see we call centaurea cornflowers (bachelor's buttons, too). I stand corrected. Ignore Kerouac. He obviously has had too large a caïpirinha, and is feeling feisty.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 7, 2015 18:36:23 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 7, 2015 18:47:00 GMT
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Post by htmb on Jul 7, 2015 18:57:30 GMT
How beautiful, Cheery, and such marvelously rich colors!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 10, 2015 20:18:34 GMT
thank you htmb I'm enjoying the garden this year...I'm working loads of overtime atm so when I am at home it's a lovely calm place to relax....
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Post by tod2 on Jul 13, 2015 12:09:03 GMT
Your garden couldn't be better for relaxing Cheery. It is a real feast for the eyes. I can actually recognise a few blooms!! Delphiniams, snapdragons, zinnias, petunias, and cosmos.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 5:14:07 GMT
Another successful season. What's up next?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 10, 2022 14:59:43 GMT
May is a lovely time of year. I have been spending hours and hours in the garden getting organised...not much in flower yet but the promise is there (in theory) Took some photos today... a young lilac shrub, called 'Primrose' I think... my little acer..I love this plant... some of the bluebells some ofthe plants that I've grown from seed hardening off before they go into the garden succulents in a little pot by the gazebo a humilis palm at the back of the garden...can't move it because it's too heavy! veggies ...potatoes, carrots, peas, onions and lettuce...and a pot ofstrawberry plants. aquilegia...these pop up all over the garden...this one planted itself... more to follow....
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Post by bixaorellana on May 10, 2022 15:09:00 GMT
What an abundance of riches, Cheery! Your "primrose" lilac's color would merit it a place in any garden, not to mention how gorgeous it must smell. I too love your acer. Well-grown Japanese maples always have such presence & personality. That pot of succulents so subtly draws attention to the beauty of the the different sizes of rounded stones. The bluebells and those wonderfully colored columbines ~ talk about blue in the garden!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 10, 2022 15:19:40 GMT
aloe polyphylla is an old butler sink..getting quite big now. right side of the garden showing the small lawn...the raised bed at the back is a bit sparse atm but it will soon be full of colour (fingers crossed) the blueberry bed has some aliums coming up atm...the flowers haven't opened yet. Did some random planting of stuff grown from seed. Borage (for my pimms!) calendula...a few rescued pansies that were in a winter pot.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 10, 2022 16:03:40 GMT
All looking very good Cheery. I planted my smaller polyphylla out in the bed about a month ago. Once you grow borage you’ll never be without it...
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Post by mickthecactus on May 10, 2022 16:07:12 GMT
Back in 2014 you showed a beautiful little species Pelargonium. Still have it? Do you know what it is?
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