PotsandPlots

Another glorious week weather wise has seen me walking up and down the garden with the watering can. This week I’m going to share a few pictures of my front garden, which, while less interesting than the back, still has something to offer.

I was also fortunate enough to visit Sarah Raven’s garden at Perch Hill this week. I recommend a visit, and also the ginger cake!

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1. The front garden. A couple of shots from more or less the same positions. Some green alkanet ( I think ) has sprung up at the very front of the bed. Technically a weed, it’s rather nice, so I’ve allowed it the space at the front, but am keeping it from moving too far backwards.

There are a few yellow poppy-type flowers in there, too. To the right in both shots is the giant weigelia that dominates the front corner of the plot, just coming into bloom. Further back, you can see the greenish-yellow of cornus leaves. Later in the year, some rudbeckia and helenium will come through.

2. I love a campaula, particularly when they’re cascading down a wall. I have several walls they could cascade down, but instead the garden gods have served them up under my front door. Despite the scathing “weed” criticism from my postman, I’m keeping them there. They wave cheerily when anybody crosses the threshold.

3. Returning to the back garden, where there’s a lovely varigated weigelia. It’s not fully out yet, but it is always the shining star of the garden, this time of year.

4. Next to that weigelia is this maple, and growing through it, a lovely purple geranium. It was nestled inside, with a shaft of morning light penetrating through.

5. Honesty, another geranium, some erysimum and a couple of teasels, this is the most wild bit of the garden. The purples all look lovely together. The erysimum is grown from a cutting given to me by the owner of our favourite local National Garden Scheme garden. We’ve had several generations of it now. And I’ll be taking more cuttings this year too.

6. Finally, aquiliegia. Arguably, I have allowed too many to sow through the garden, but the purple colours and the fact that they are bee magnets, make it very hard not to let them spread to wherever they want to go. As the weeks pass, different colour ones, elsewhere in the garden will come through, but at the moment, the purples have it.

And Finally.

A few of the many photos I took at Perch Hill this week.