In the Garden

Robin said:
I love cottage garden style gardens like that. We’ve got foxgloves in ours, and are never sure where they're going to come up from year to year, or what colour or how many they'll be. Adds a sense of the unexpected.
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There is just so much to see, everywhere! 🙂 The lady said she often wondered what people thought of it, given that so many of the other gardens are very neat and ordered, but to me this is like the contrast between painting-by-numbers (the gardens anyone could reproduce, given time and money) and a work of art 🙂 I would love a garden like this - my garden is like a rundown council estate version of this one! 😱 :D
 
Northerner said:
There is just so much to see, everywhere! 🙂 The lady said she often wondered what people thought of it, given that so many of the other gardens are very neat and ordered, but to me this is like the contrast between painting-by-numbers (the gardens anyone could reproduce, given time and money) and a work of art 🙂 I would love a garden like this - my garden is like a rundown council estate version of this one! 😱 :D
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I don't like too neat and formal.
 
Robin said:
I love cottage garden style gardens like that. We’ve got foxgloves in ours, and are never sure where they're going to come up from year to year, or what colour or how many they'll be. Adds a sense of the unexpected.
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Foxgloces are biennials and rely on self seeding. Mine are hit and miss too.
 
Robin said:
I love cottage garden style gardens like that. We’ve got foxgloves in ours, and are never sure where they're going to come up from year to year, or what colour or how many they'll be. Adds a sense of the unexpected.
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Northerner said:
This is my favourite garden in the neighbourhood 🙂 I asked the lady for permission to take the pictures 🙂 She claims she's not a gardener! 😱 I think she's an exceptionally good one 🙂 Pictures don't really do it justice
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What a fabulous garden Love her mix of cottage garden plants ... just lovely, tell her. I am not impressed by neat and tidy gardens...not enough to savour for the bees either.
 
Zaluzianskya, Night scented Plox. I’ve often heard gardeners refer to it as the “z” plant @Birdy , probably for obvious reasons🙂. It’s a lovely neat little plant, (as in @Wirralass ’s picture) which you probably wouldn’t give a second glance to during the day, but from early evening the flowers open and the fragrance hits you. I’d say it’s only semi hardy, it survives winter but sometimes loses a few parts...little trim sorts it out.

Pics are lovely @Northerner , particularly the purple geranium....I do have a bit of a soft spot for those. Although I bought one a few years ago and when it flowered it was a horrible pale salmony pink colour...must have been mislabelled ...kept trying to get rid of it but it kept coming back...I haven’t spotted it yet this year but I’m on look out with garden fork at the ready🙂
 
We have a very cottagey ( is that even a word?) garden. Everything just self seeds and it’s pretty wild in a sort of ordered way. Our purple geranium is a riot of colour this year. It’s right under my bird feeders so maybe it’s the bird poo fertilising it! Foxgloves abound in our garden, I do pull a few up every now and again as they do tend to take over.
Formal gardens have their place ie a stately home but I prefer a wilder one.
 

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I've hit on a solution as to what to do with all the self-seedlings, I'm transplanting them to land down at the bottom of the road, but early on so less people see me trundling back and forth like the mad baglady that I am. Today I dug in a Leycestria, 2 Laurels to grow into trees not bushes, lots of Foxgloves and yesterday tons more Foxgloves, some purple beestuff (I think it's loosestrife) the bees luv it, a Sycamore and a Rowan tree. Tons more to go in, could do with being up about 4... I think it's council land but a right mess with deadfall, discarded masks, broken bottles etc. Anything has to be an improvement!

I think it's going to be a good year for climbing roses, we have a few of these in the garden, my fave rose maybe... smells divine.
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Northerner said:
I've been told this isn't a Japanese anemone, but a tree peony (which was my first thought when I google-imaged it). Friends suggest the leaves are not right for anemone, but they are for peony - plants are so confusing sometimes! 😱 :d

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I’d say Peony, most people think of the double petalled blowsy sort of heavy flowers when they think of peony, but there are single ones as well. Also if it’s in flower now. Our Japanese anemones don't flower til late summer into autumn.
 
Birdy said:
I've hit on a solution as to what to do with all the self-seedlings, I'm transplanting them to land down at the bottom of the road, but early on so less people see me trundling back and forth like the mad baglady that I am. Today I dug in a Leycestria, 2 Laurels to grow into trees not bushes, lots of Foxgloves and yesterday tons more Foxgloves, some purple beestuff (I think it's loosestrife) the bees luv it, a Sycamore and a Rowan tree. Tons more to go in, could do with being up about 4... I think it's council land but a right mess with deadfall, discarded masks, broken bottles etc. Anything has to be an improvement!

I think it's going to be a good year for climbing roses, we have a few of these in the garden, my fave rose maybe... smells divine.
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I have a climbing rose which was in a totally inappropriate place so cut it to below ground, must have been 10 years ago but blow me it survived and grows every year from a crack between paving and a wall. This year it has more blooms than ever before.
 
I’d say Peony too @Robin ...the leaves certainly look like peonies...Japanese anemones are later. These reproduce like mad in our garden, you definitely get your monies worth...I pull loads up every year.
 
Can I ask if you have success with transplanting your anemones? I’ve never had much luck...something to do with them having a tap root apparently...or maybe I’m just rubbish at it🙄...perhaps I should take more earth with them? Any tips would be much appreciated🙂
 
Lisa66 said:
Can I ask if you have success with transplanting your anemones? I’ve never had much luck...something to do with them having a tap root apparently...or maybe I’m just rubbish at it🙄...perhaps I should take more earth with them? Any tips would be much appreciated🙂
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Son alleges they’re still alive...I transplanted smaller ones that had self set in the last year or so, and hadn’t had time to establish such a deep root, and told him to keep them well watered til they established, so fingers crossed. I didn’t take much soil with them at all. Things with taproots are tricky, I lost my sea holly a few years ago for that very reason, when I tried to move it to a different part of the garden.
 
My Japanese Anemones I can't get rid of and they were originally from a friend.
 
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