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Lovely day in the garden

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I haven’t been on for a few days, and it will be a while before I catch up as we have to be in Cornwall next week for a funeral. But my garden keeps me smiling . . .

View from the lounge with Cornus Eddie’s White Wonder on the left

Clematis Chevalier given to us by a friend

Viburnum kilimanjaro


Amelanchier bed with pink and lilac shades


Pieris Forest Flame

Love this Viscaria grown from seed

Phlox subulata, Geranium, Silene dioca, Melica grass, Campanula Glomerata


Dwarf Lilac – lovely scent

Peony and Geranium

White Cosmos


Hesperis matronalis (sweet rocket)


Viburnum Kilimanjaro wafting its perfume!


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Happy gardening everyone :)

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The garden looks stunning, the plants happy and healthy and the lawn immaculate! I especially like the Sweet Rocket, might have a go at growing that.

25 May, 2019

 

Thanks very much Honey. I love the Sweet Rocket . . . it also comes in white, and will happily seed itself around.

25 May, 2019

 

Beautiful Sheilbub, your garden is gorgeous,I love your viburnum.and agree with Honeysuckle,stunning.

25 May, 2019

 

A lovely garden

25 May, 2019

 

Absolutely lovely garden, and sunshine too! :)

25 May, 2019

 

It looks lovely, Sheila. I like the beds on either side of the near end of the path and the planting to the right of the greenhouse. It makes a “journey” to the end of the garden, where it looks as if the path might just be continuing to somewhere else. Actually, is it?

25 May, 2019

 

Many thanks Callie, Marjorie, Karen and Mel . . . in fact Mel the path just leads to a bench, but it's painted black so you can't quite see it in the photo!

25 May, 2019

 

that is a wonderful space, you must be so pleased with it. I have a pale pink hesperis too as well as the white and lilac form. they do self seed very freely [too freely!]

hope the trip to Cornwall goes as well as can be expected under the circumstances.

26 May, 2019

 

Looking lovely shiela, plenty of color going on, it’s lovely to see a garden with hedges rather than fence panels and that meandering path I love, do you have a seating area in the far corner?

26 May, 2019

 

I must love that meandering brick path.... it is my intention ( one day) to break up my lawn doing just that!

26 May, 2019

 

Thanks very much Eileen, yes, we’ll be relieved when it’s all over.

Thank you Julien - just a bench in the far corner, but a proper seating area under a pergola near the house (see previous blogs/photos!).

Thanks Amsterdam . . . hope you succeed, we love it.

26 May, 2019

 

All looks lovely Sheila, your lawn looks well manicured too! I do love your viburnum, I have two myself, but this one has very pretty flowers!

26 May, 2019

 

Thanks Kate. I used to love my Viburnum mariesii in my previous garden which was bigger - it would be too big for our current space. This one was Plant of the Year at Chelsea about four years ago, and the scent is better!
Which two do you have?

26 May, 2019

 

Its looking good. Seems only about a year ago that you began it all...

26 May, 2019

 

Your garden is beautiful ... I love the way the path meanders around :)

26 May, 2019

 

Thank you so much Sue - we started planting in May last year - so you’re right!

Thank you very much Hywel 🙂

27 May, 2019

 

So many beautiful things would keep me smiling too Sheila. I love how a new plant settles into the landscape as if it belongs there. It all works well together.

28 May, 2019

 

I love your garden Sheila, the design and your choices when it came to the planting, I think what makes it special is the fact we have seen it all progress right from the start and now it's flourishing...

28 May, 2019

 

Wow - thank you both for your lovely comments, Paul and Sue 🙂🙂

28 May, 2019

 

I heartily agree with all the previous comments Sheila ... a wonderful design ... :o))

30 May, 2019

 

Thanks Shirley:))

30 May, 2019

 

Beautiful, & to think that it has all been achieved in a year.

30 May, 2019

 

Lovely kind comment, Feverfew, thank you!

30 May, 2019

 

Hi Sheila, I’ve got quite a big viburnum tinus “Laurustinus” in the front garden, acting as a large hedge, which flowers late Winter through Spring.
The other is in the back garden, I bought it a couple of years ago, it’s also a tinus, but it’s called “Lisarose” which has deep brick red flower buds which open to pinkish white flowers through mid-winter to mid-spring.

31 May, 2019

 

Good choices Kate - those are both very reliable 🙂

1 Jun, 2019

 

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2 Jun, 2019

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