A new garden is always a lovely thing, especially in Midsummer. Two of my friends have just moved into a new house, and though they chose it for the kitchen rather than the garden, the garden is not without its benefits.
The Peony is wonderfully scented, but cramped between two large shrubs, drunkenly collapsing into the lawn. The lawn has a good substrate of meadow weeds, hardy grass and moss. That's how I like lawns, with a liberal sprinkling of hoverflies and bees in the clover, but YMMV. The Maple is a hero tree - wonderful shape, healthy leaves. It's high summer, so the leaves are green, but you can just see a fringe around the leaves suggesting intensity in autumn, subtlety in spring.
There are some attractive hardy perennials about the place. Check out that sparkling ice-white Astrantia, and there's good old reliable Geranium Rozanne, blueing up the place beautifully.
Here's the main action item; an eau de nil Hydrangea with big electric green leaves. It's a bit crowded back by other shrubs and the lawn, but it's a good plant.
I almost missed the Passion Flower, tucked out of the corner behind one of the two sheds. Some Campanula was disappearing under Dogwood stems. A Fuchsia was uncertainly budding amidst its own dead stems. Creeping buttercup brawling with variegated ivy in a quiet corner.
The lawn is cramping the beds. The shrubs are all too close. There are a few big holes where there was maybe decking, or a BBQ area. But some of these may make it into the new garden that's coming.
The Peony is wonderfully scented, but cramped between two large shrubs, drunkenly collapsing into the lawn. The lawn has a good substrate of meadow weeds, hardy grass and moss. That's how I like lawns, with a liberal sprinkling of hoverflies and bees in the clover, but YMMV. The Maple is a hero tree - wonderful shape, healthy leaves. It's high summer, so the leaves are green, but you can just see a fringe around the leaves suggesting intensity in autumn, subtlety in spring.
There are some attractive hardy perennials about the place. Check out that sparkling ice-white Astrantia, and there's good old reliable Geranium Rozanne, blueing up the place beautifully.
Here's the main action item; an eau de nil Hydrangea with big electric green leaves. It's a bit crowded back by other shrubs and the lawn, but it's a good plant.
I almost missed the Passion Flower, tucked out of the corner behind one of the two sheds. Some Campanula was disappearing under Dogwood stems. A Fuchsia was uncertainly budding amidst its own dead stems. Creeping buttercup brawling with variegated ivy in a quiet corner.
The lawn is cramping the beds. The shrubs are all too close. There are a few big holes where there was maybe decking, or a BBQ area. But some of these may make it into the new garden that's coming.
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