Janet and Steve's Garden

For anyone who happens to have stumbled across this blog in the hope of finding insights to the meaning of life, serious discourse on matters of great import or any sharp wit, then you've certainly come to the wrong place. This is just a simple diary of one couple's gardening experiences, published so that family and friends can see the garden develop.

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Fish .... Good news!

We still have three fish. I must have scared the heron off before it could finish the job. I have put a "fence" around the pond to give a little added protection.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Grrrrrrrrrrrr

You'll notice that there's no photographs of the fish ... A heron came down and ate them in the week. Grrrrrrr

May 12th ... random photo's

Once again, I popped out of the house and shot lots of photographs. Fifty seven, to be precise. Of course, many turned out to be less than interesting or duplicates of previous photo's, so didn't make it to the blog. These are the ones voted for by the Steve/ Janet jury ...



From the upstairs landing window ... a slightly different perspective. It confused me and I took the picture!

the border next to the driveway ... The Geranium is starting to flower - we think a little ahead of time.


Peonies are reputed to dislike being moved. Well this one is obviously a gypsy variety.

The honeysuckle aong the side passage that is a July flowering specimen ... It seems that it forgot to check the calendar!



The rather nice Azalea at the back of the patio that is about to burst into bloom - the bamboo behind it was bought for the colour of its stems as the next photo shows.






I'll post more of this Clematis as the flowers open, but it looks promising. Given that it's been pulled around a lot - while I repaired the fence and janet panted the fence, I think it's doing rather well.




I have no idea what this is ... but it's been flowering for ages. A great-value plant!


The tree-fern is sprouting new fronds. Last year's fronds are still there and still looking reasonably fresh so we'll probably leave them in place as the new fronds develop.




The "prairie" border lacked colour. Being in direct line-of-sight from the swing-seat we decided to plant this Geum. It's looking good and we hope if develops into a real splash of colour in subsequent years.

Another recent purchase. This heuchera is next to the new path and will, we hope, form a mist of red as it develops.

I do like the way Mahonia's give this splash of red as they grow.

Monday, May 07, 2007

Some more photo's

I went out and ran off forty photo's of the garden ...
Don't worry, i'm not about to post them all ... Blogger's struggling to load the photo's anyway, but here are few, without too much explaination, for your delectation.


The side passage ...


Oh dear ... that Acer's looking poorly.


The view from Janet's side of the swing (yes .. we have allotted sides)

A close-up of the Alliums that you can see in the previous photo

My, what a lot of Cannas we've got.



The Choysia at the front, next to the drive



Some Alliums .. we bought them for their leaf form but they didn't do much, so we moved them. Now they're working very nicely.


The Weigela's looking good ... There are three in the front garden and they're all starting to give a lovely display. Hmmmm I wonder if we ought to have one of these in the back garden.


Another one

And another ...



We don't "do" pink ...



Pasque flower seed-heads with the sun behind them ... They look stunning.

A view from above

Just for a change I thought i'd take some slightly different shots ... These are of the back garden from an upstairs window.

Starting from the left, and working right. Hopefully this will help you orient yourself when looking at the photo's I've posted elsewhere.














At the far left corner is the "summerhouse" (AKA the shed with windows). Janet's tidied this up and it now looks much better... well, apart from the glaring white buckets.



To the right (South-ish), and roughly central to the back fence is the swing-seat, with the patio further to the right in the far right corner















Then moving towards the house, the shady part next to the fence where the "bog" garden is next to the shed.