The Back Garden June Ist 2016

Now that's a labour of love, your garden is beautiful Siris, I love the wee statue to :)

Wow your garden looks fantastic !! Soooooo much colour already !

Thanks Vic, Siris statue is not that wee, used her for my avatar photo. That reminds me to change her corsage, whilst the Iris are still flowering.

What a beautiful garden

You have lovely colour but have also managed to vary the heights so well, in order to show off all the plants to their best!

Thank you Dan, The Crow liked the pond particularly.
Paul, I am always moving plants. Now I put new plants in the border, still in their pots, until I am sure they are in the right location. Josephine has been move 3 time before I was happy, hope she is now.

Siris

Looks stunning you must be proud

my type of garden

Gg, not bity, almost full to the brim, but a few places cleared for..... Guess what! There are marker sticks all over the place, so I don't dig up dormant things by mistake, that's the theory anyway.

Really beautiful!
I still haven't taken that photo - I wait for the sun to go off it and then forget...also been unwell this week. will try to do better...

Beautiful view from the conservatory, so much variety, love to see it like that, there's always a surprise waiting. Drifts of one colour look splendid in huge gardens, but I like this sort. With the weather we have had for the last couple of days, the conservatory is the best place to be, especially with a view like that!

Wow, so envious of your Clematis, so many flowers. Mine are dormant, lol, as ever, Im always weeks behind.
Your garden looks great, so much colour and plants.
Can I ask what the plant is in your third picture, to the right, grey, spikey and tall, could be Cardoon? Love it.

Honeysuckle, I think if I had a big garden, I could not manage with mostly herbaceous perennials. I could not cope with the work, it would have to be more shrubs.

Dawn, yes I think you call edible Artichokes, cardoons up north. There is actually one flower head already nestling in the middle, think I had 6 last year from one plant. These Clematis are named varieties, but I do have several large flowered ones that I grew from seed, and several small flowered Viticellas.

It looks so lovingly tendered looks beautiful.

Fantastic garden. Lots going on there.

Looking forward to seeing more pics of your clematis.

Been looking in my book and there is Cynara cardunculus (cardoon) and Cynara scolymus (globe artichoke) I prefer the latter, like yours, the leaves are nicer.

Dawn, the Artichoke head is now visible above the foliage, I will take a photo when it is in flower. The bottom leaves turn yellow early, so I cut off the untidy ones, just keeps the plant neater.

Thanks Siris, will be good to see.

You have a beautiful garden, it makes you feel better on a dull day if one is looking out on such a delight of colours, your planting is so good and definitely my kind of garden, I cannot see any spaces for you to put anything, lol...I always wondered where you got your avatar from and what it was connected to....

It is looking even better than when we came over, envious of all the colour you have there, ours is very green with the odd splash of colour...... beautiful Siris.......

Lincslass, I originally sellotaped a broken off Iris head to the statue, almost forgot to do one this year, although I have broken off several myself by mistake.

Homebird, in the first photo, between the spotted 'mushroom' pot and the bridge is your Blue pond Iris, the flower finished, it was a lovely blue.

I don't think I have ever seen so many different beautiful plants in such a compact space...and still room for a bit of lawn! Agree with comments above that you have them perfectly placed so you can enjoy them all, and that has obviously been your big challenge. It must be a haven for bees. Wonderful!

Thank you Karen, I have made loads of mistakes, still am. Put my new Potentillas from seed at the front of the border, but the flower stalks have extended and extended and come Autumn I will move back a bit. Also don't do straight nor do level!

No, nor me Siris. Straight, I have to tolerate a little of, but level bores me rigid!

But I level photos and pictures on walls by eye, not only mine but other folks. ( that is those I know well who won't be offended)

Sorry Sue.....read that comment a few times but I can't quite make out what you mean....sorry :S

Hi Karen

I think Siris means if she popped around to your house and the picture needed straightening she would

I may be wrong , but thatS how I have read it

Gg

Oooooh Yeeeees! I get it now! lol! I get tempted to do that as well, and I also pull weeds out of other people's gardens!

I feel if the baskets or pots are dry !!!

Gnarly has that meaning correct. I went to dottyd's friends' super garden and wanted to dead head their Papaver pods, but if someone touched my selected Iris seed pods, well I would ........them.

lol! I know what you mean! The worst thing is when you do these things without thinking and then its very embarrassing! :)

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