The garden is looking spectacular, everything is in full flower, the fruits and vegetables are all in flower or early fruit. It's jsut a shame it has been too hot to sit in the garden and enjoy it.
We've finally got round to cutting the fir tree down and hoping to be able to transfer it to the front garden along with the hydrangea, along with the rest of this soil to finish levelling the front lawn off and create a hedge.
We're being conservative with watering and our more needy plants are in the shade.
I'd not realised how many of Stephanie's roses had bloomed, they've now been dead headed. They smell so beautiful.
The water butt is almost empty and no rain is forecast for another week. The overflow containers have been empty for ages now. We're already using the washing up water for the front garden. I want to get another water butt for the house extension to be able to collect more rain water.
We had a fab day out to Hidcote in the Cotswolds with Mary and her son last weekend. I love visiting gardens to get ideas for ours. It was the planting combinations that I was interested this time and I identified lots of plants in full flower that I'd been pulling up out of our front garden thinking they were weeds.
Obviously everything one sees in these gardens has to be scaled down when one tries to replicate it and I'm not sure most of these ideas ever work. However, I can replicate these ideas.
