Month: June 2016
In a vase on Monday
Firstly, I’d like to apologise to all those whose Monday vases I didn’t find time to appreciate last week – if you are good enough to look at mine, then I should find time to enjoy yours! But stolen wheels, dentists and contract endings – not to mention the referendum and the tricky situation in … Continue reading In a vase on Monday
Wordless Wednesday
In a vase on Monday
My vase this week for Cathy’s meme at Rambling in the Garden uses flowers from an area of the garden that I planted up in March this year. The lower half of the Hornbeam Gardens has been planted as a shrub garden – we didn’t have much in the way of good flowering shrubs here … Continue reading In a vase on Monday
And then came the roses …
Unfortunately, the rain accompanied the roses – and continues (endlessly). The tomatoes are unplanted (just as well, the blight would get them), the french beans unsown. Weeds as high as an elephant’s eye on the veggie patch, with barely a thing to eat (aside from some rather gorgeous broad beans and lettuce). Of that … Continue reading And then came the roses …
In a vase on Monday
Flowers don’t come much more luscious than peonies do they? It’s my favourite cut flower when I am actually buying, but I find them so hard to cut in my own garden. This autumn I think I’ll divide both my pink and white peonies (I’ve only the two, both unnamed) and take a piece of … Continue reading In a vase on Monday
Cutting garden review, June
This is a useful exercise, inspired by Cathy’s Vase on Monday meme at Rambling in the Garden. Julie at Peonies & Posies used to do a ‘Cutting Garden Review’ last year, and now Christina at ‘Creating My Own Garden of the Hesperides’ is trying to keep up the tradition, so I’m joining in with her … Continue reading Cutting garden review, June
Au Voleur! (Or what the gendarmes do when …)
This has been rather an unpleasant week. If I rewind to Sunday night and Monday morning (and look at the pictures I took then), I can hardly believe that everything looks so idyllic. For once I had some help in the garden on Sunday – the Bon Viveur was keen to do some strimming and … Continue reading Au Voleur! (Or what the gendarmes do when …)
In a vase on Monday
My roses are finally getting properly in their stride now, after planting in 2012/13. Apart from ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ (whose buds have turned into an unpleasant grey mush) all are actually flowering quite well in spite of our very heavy rain. This weekend I was admiring ‘Benjamin Britten’ … probably for the first time … Continue reading In a vase on Monday
Wildlife Wednesday – A Perfect Storm — Gardening Jules
Inspired by Tammy’s Casa Mariposa blog, I have been trying for some time to compile a list of UK Garden Centres and Nurseries which sell plants without neonics – systemic insecticide use. I am failing. The RHS were unable to help – despite selling a licensed logo “Perfect for Pollinators” This isn’t regulated – plants […] … Continue reading Wildlife Wednesday – A Perfect Storm — Gardening Jules
Garden Dreaming at Châtillon 