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We are at the back end of Spring now and the garden is beginning to look very lush and full , although I seem to be able to get space in which to stuff more plants . I ’m really pleased with how the garden is developing this year , I think it ’s the sound it has ever been . I ’m particularly felicitous with the front garden which has undergo something of a transformation in the last couple of month . In this monthly series I test to look at the borders as a whole – what ’s working , what ’s not , what might need add together , what needs to be , um , edited out . have ’s take a whirl , shall we ?
Rear garden
First the sight from above , taken from a passing concorde . Annoyingly it does n’t quite set in one exposure and I have n’t figured out how to stitch them together into one big one .
The Patio Border – this is filling in nicely , I opine . In the first photo it ’s absolved that some back - of - border height is ask . There are several tall aster , but there ’s room for more . I have some Ricinus that I plan to put in here once they have develop on a number . When I mean back to how much I hated this border before , just a few month back , with the sluggish , uninteresting works that were doing nothing together or on an individual basis , it ’s quite a change . There was some real landed estate at the very edges into which I have planted some nemophila and genus Erigeron . They are thin just now but I hope they will soon bulge up . The really capital thing about this border is how few of the plant are actually flowering – there ’s a show to fare .
The Sunny Border . Well , the hoped for coverage of fence by the roses and clematis has find , sort of , up to a point . The first clematis is Mme Julia Correvon , getting to a good 10′ this year . Rather than have her flop over the top , I have train the longest stem out to the right , horizontally . It has responded by putting out new vertical growth from almost every leaf node , all of which should bear blossom . I seem to have stumbled on a good idea ( I strongly doubt I am the first to have it ) . This border is attend pretty well squeeze too . The dahlias have mostly come back from their winter sleep and are acquire on solid . I need to impale them . I have some one-year climbers which could oppose for sparkle along the fencing line , and like the Patio Border , some altitude would be nice , a ricinus or two stuffed in here perhaps . I am maturate Mexican sunflower from seed but they are coming on very slowly . I wonder if the seeded player is no good this class . I ’ve inseminate another raft – the corpse of the original parcel and more that I collected from plants grown last year . I hope it bucks up its ideas as it is a good height and flowers till the frost .
The Wisteria Border , incorporate the Eye of Sauron . It was about 10 months ago that I planted the newly dug borders around the new seats sphere . It has come on leaps and bounds since then . I really enjoy baby-sit at the table with a cupper , the ominous but somehow friendly audio of a small USA of buzzy insects doing their thing . The planting has spring up quite marvellous – the digitalis and genus Thalictrum in particular , providing some sense of being surrounded , exactly the effect I was hop for . At the moment I ca n’t opine of a single thing I ’d change . I have recently added some plants in the gaps – a mix of thing – some sidalcea , cosmos , a lupine or two . As is its wo nt at this time of yr , the wisteria is go loco , sending out bespeak stems in every direction . I will give it the summertime prune in a few week , although some of the more annoying ace may find themselves lopped forward of schedule .
The Lilac Border . The lilac has pretty much fetch up now , but it looked and reek fabulous while it lasted . There is still raft of elbow room in this border . It is a bit tricky , being quite shaded at one end and partially at the other end , as well as being quite damp as it is at the bottom of the hill ( well , fragile slope ) . The eurybia divaricata ( white wood aster ) is doing well at the far end , slightly push out some polemonium and the rodgersia which is trying to nose through . This border could definitely do with some more bulb military action next year . Some more genus Allium for indisputable , perhaps some daffodils too . This border is the least stuffed of them all . I just have to find / grow the correct plants for the smudge .
The Shady Border . The bush are deadening to get going , to the point that I occupy I ’ve in the end cut the carmine dogwood tree to the last it has often threaten . I expect it will be fine , I can see some new ontogenesis in a couple of places . The fence is an chance , I think I have mentioned this before . I have a couple of clematis montana ‘ marjorie ’ which will do just fine along the fence . If I plant them now they would promptly incubate the fencing . I just want them to grow on a little first . I have jammed more underplanting in this border . The white foxgloves work very well here , they put up out well in the specter . pity about the crash !
The Hibiscus Border . The nominal hibiscus , over on the rightfulness at the back , has eventually put on some leaf . It looks a niggling sickly , with some yellowing to the leaves . I ’m hoping it just need a feed up . Again , I ’m pretty pleased with this expanded border , previously a mo of a useless scrap , untidily embed .
Finally , we ’ll leave the back garden with the view from the bottom , looking around the border of the Eye , up the Sunny Border and a little of the Patio Border .
The Side Passage .
I ’m passably pleased with nearly all the planters on the sunnier side of the passage . The clematis , roses and genus Lonicera have all taken off , with even the new roses doing well flower - impertinent in their first year . On the shadier side , the hostas are doing well and stay on unmunched . The rose ‘ danse de feu ’ has suffer grievously from mold , I ’ve had to remove nearly all the leaf . I ’m hop-skip it will put out some raw growth and be OK , otherwise I shall have to expect till next year . The other funny planted look ok at earth level but that paries desperately want covering . The hyrdrangea petiolaris will finally do just that , but could be years to get go . I might put another clematis montana in , or perhaps a tone - liberal spring up . The fern planter looks a little sad , with the bottom tier basically spare . I ’m not trusted why . I shall have to bump some replacement fern . It was a nice idea but it has n’t work out quite how I imagine .
Front Garden
First the scene from above , make by a crack squadron of photo reconnaissance pigeons .
I am still busy plugging gaps in the planting , there ’s still mountain of elbow room , particularly along the fenceline . I have some delphinium I desire to put in , they ’re not quite ready . I have latterly plant genus Eupatorium purpurea and angelica archangel for some height and social structure , along with lupine , corpus sternum , heuchera , fuchsia , ricincus , anemone , poppies and a whole bunch more . Last month I had some pave stones by room of a path running in and out of the planting . I got annoyed with the way they got swamped when with muddy dirt whenever I watered , defeating the physical object of providing a relatively safe footing . I decide to off them and have instead put down a span of inches of nick bark . This does the caper well and also looks a bunch gracious , I call up .
The Fence Border . Not a fertile lot going in here yet . I set two spare no - name rose wine and more recently an genus Abutilon suntense . I have a distich of spare clematis that could go in here too . The corner by the house presents an opportunity . If I run some wires up there it would be a good spot for a climb come up , or perhaps a rambler , or even both .
The Window Border . There was a large pheasant ’s tail eatage under the windowpane , but it was flop about and taking up too much real estate . I ’ve move it to the wall border , you ’ll be able to spot it there . As a result I have some outer space . I put in some helenium partition , a few lupins , some agastache , a couple of other bits and bobsled . I will put some of the delphiniums in here too I opine .
The Wall Border . Dominated by the hypericum and the weigela , but ameliorate by the addition of numerous other flora . The abelia , liberate from an inapplicable spot in the back garden , is doing well here , putting on lots of new increase . I will put in more foxgloves this class , I ’ve enoyed the height they bring in as well as the coloring .
The Keyhole Border . The region that was recently lawn is the least densely planted at the second . There is still passel of room for more plants , I shall fill up the space once the plants are a ripe size .
The Borrowed Border . Strictly speak not in my garden at all , carved out of the verge on the paving material side of my front wall . I am engaged train it anyway . It was looking pretty overgrown a few days back but I have expend clock time on it this workweek , straighten out the weeds and mulching , plus I have put some plants in . It does have to stand for itself a bit , I often block to irrigate it ! Into here I have put some salvia , calendula , berkheya , polemonium , antirrhinum , some teeny geranium seedlings .
That ’s it ! Lots pass on , still plenty to sort out , and lots more blossom to come .
I ’ll be back in a calendar month with the next Border Patrol .
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