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Celebrating 12 months of having a garden!

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It’s hard to believe that it’s only a year since our landscapers finished (almost) the layout of our new back garden. My small greenhouse had just been built, and I very quickly started to sow seed and enjoy doing what I love best.

Today it is mild, so I took a few photos, the first two from upstairs


and this is the view of the front garden from upstairs showing the lovely Prunus Autumnalis against the hedge of Photinia red robin taken with a shaky hand :(


Now to show you gifts from GoYers . . . last year Seaburngirl sent me 6 healthy Polemonium, 3 blue and 3 white, and they flowered well and set seed


and Shirley tulip sent me 3 large seedlings of Erysimum Bowles Mauve, and look at them now!


This is my new grass, Carex Milk Chocolate


White Honesty

Tree Peony with white honesty and perennial wallflower

I adore this Nemesia Fruticans ‘lemon fizz’ . . . this is ONE plant and it has produced many seedlings

Pieris Forest Flame

Coral bark Acer


My baby Great White Cherry (Prunus Tai Haku) just a few weeks old. I missed the one I’d had in my old garden, so just had to have it again :)


First Spring for Hydrangea petiolaris

Bush Amelanchier

Primula Sieboldeii


I hope you’re all enjoying this mild Spring day and loving this wonderful time of year :))

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Beautiful Sheila..your garden looks more than a year old.

I particularly like the Lemon fizz Nemesia.Ive read it's not frost hardy?

8 Apr, 2019

 

wow is it really a year? so glad the polemonium have done well for you. the landscaping looks lovely. So pleased you are happy with the garden and are enjoying this mild spring. I'm in Wales with my daughter at the moment and it has been 15-16 degrees over the weekend.

8 Apr, 2019

 

Thanks Julia - well we’ve had quite a few hard frosts recently and this Nemesia still looks perfectly happy :)

Thanks again for your generosity Eileen - I have even had enough seedlings to give some away. And thank you for your kind comment.

8 Apr, 2019

 

Has it been a year already Sheila? Wow, time flies. Everything is perfect. I'm still lovin' the brickwork - you had some talented help.

8 Apr, 2019

 

Incredible that its only a year - look how big things have grown in such a short time! Its a credit to all concerned. Love the bush Amelanchier - didn't know you could get those - how big does it get|?

8 Apr, 2019

 

A lovely garden. You have an very interesting collection of plants. It' lovely to have a greenhouse where you can spend many happy times out of the cold.

8 Apr, 2019

 

Its so lovely Sheila...and so 'you'. I agree with you on Nemesia, in fact I bought three good sized ones for a fiver this afternoon at Tescos. They are only good for bedding here, apart from N. Confetti which is perennial. But I love them. Its funny isn't it...how we have certain plants that we can't do without. Your Cherry looks lovely. And I know Amelanchier is another one for you too. Looking forward to seeing your garden maturing this year. :)

8 Apr, 2019

 

Thank you Paul . . . you’re right. We were so lucky with our two young landscapers - they were talented all right - just brilliant.

Sue thanks! I can’t say how big the Amelanchier will grow, but it’s currently about 4 feet after three years.

Exactly Marjorie - thank you for your lovely comment :)

Thank you so much Karen for your astute comments . . . you know me so well. I’m really looking forward to filling the beds with masses of beautiful flowers this summer :)

8 Apr, 2019

 

Wow it's lovely, the nemesia really pretty as is all, very tempted for a peony ive never grew one :-))

9 Apr, 2019

 

Thanks Daylily . . . I've never grown a peony either, but a normal one and a tree peony were here when we moved in, so we kept them. I like the leaves :)

9 Apr, 2019

 

It's looking really nice. Glad that you are enjoying it, now that all the landscaping is finished. Hope we all have a good summer. The leaves of the Pieris look like bright flowers themselves, as well as the blossom. A really good shrub to have isn't it.

9 Apr, 2019

 

The garden looks superb, worth all the upheaval (and cost) and your shrubs all look wonderfully settled and healthy.

9 Apr, 2019

 

Many thanks Feverfew and Honeysuckle - I do feel lucky to have such a manageable space, which makes gardening a pleasure.

9 Apr, 2019

 

Yes really like the peony foliage aswell an added bonus, lovely they were already there -))

9 Apr, 2019

 

Sheila ... your garden looks very pretty. Useful to have so much trellis.

10 Apr, 2019

 

Sheila, that really is a wonderful design to your garden, the contours are just perfect. Pleased to see the Bowles's Mauve plants are thriving!

10 Apr, 2019

 

Thanks Terra ... yes, I like the trellis but just need inspiration for plants to grow on it. I have sowed perennial sweet pea seeds but no sign of germination yet!

Thank you Shirley, I’m thrilled with the design and it makes the garden incredibly easy to care for :)

10 Apr, 2019

 

Well that time has flown Sheila, you must be in your element now, hard graft all done, now the enjoyable part, growing all the pretty smaller ones of your choice to fill in between the established shrubs, all to be done at your leisure.
I love the design, can't have curves now without a lot of upheaval, think I'm too old now to change all ours but can admire others....

10 Apr, 2019

 

Thanks Sue. As you can imagine, my little greenhouse is full of “pretty smaller plants” just waiting for their moment to be planted out. Nearly there . . . :)

11 Apr, 2019

 

Nice to see you're enjoying your new garden :)

13 Apr, 2019

 

Thanks Hywel - yes, very much :))

14 Apr, 2019

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