June view 2009

June view 2009
View of rose and herb garden, June 2009

Small Garden Story

Over some 15 + years, I have been photographing the evolution of my small (85 x 15 foot) garden and it seems a waste not to put these records into some sort of context. Beginning here in April 2010 this Blog is intended to both act as a diary and to share past and present successes (and some failures), pleasures and disappointments with fellow garden-lovers. In due course, I intend to fill in some of the background and early days but that will have to wait until the winter months!

Saturday 30 May 2015

Irresistible alliums

Alliums are so cheerful and so undemanding I just have to keep photographing them. This year there are even more - from what seemed like threads of grass a couple of years back, new flowering plants are actually competing with previously-rampant crocosmia. I have lost track of which varieties the earlier forms are but these three stems particularly caught my eye as the sun crept along the garden path this morning.

I failed to remember to thin out the allium christophii again since last season so their blooms are getting smaller as they fight for space but at least, since the removal of the trees, they are growing more upright and promise to be a picture beneath the many buds forming on rosa Prince Charles.
My one remaining hosta is standing up well against mollusc attack but these little stripey snails are worth hunting out!

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