7-23 Garden Update: warm weather brings warm colours....

[mechtild]

My, my, how a few splashes of orange and red brighten the palette of a garden. It's been ten days or so since the last garden post, flowers have gone, flowers have come.

In bloom in the tiny east bed are a red 'Champlain' rose, dusty-pink astilbe, orange day lilies, white shasta daisies, fiery asiatic lilies and candy-pink astilbe:

Comments

[elasg]

Lovely! A very nice pallet! And not a weed to be seen! (Wanna come do my place?) lol!

[mechtild]

If you only worked part time you wouldn't have any weeds, either. When I worked full time, what fun the weeds had. :)

[bagma]

What a beautiful garden you have! I too have a weakness for orange flowers.

[mechtild]

Unfortunately I don't have any other orange flowers. Once they are gone, that's it. Rudbeckia are an orangey yellow - they bloom in August, but that's not the same thing. Guess I need to plant some annuals to be happy all season. :)

[mechtild]

I don't know if I have a gift, but thank you, Mews! I've learned by trial and error, and reading, since I created my first garden, back when our daughter was little and we were living in our first house (military housing, but it had a yard, a whole half of a yard!). To think I told my dad, furious and resentful to be made to do yard work on the weekends when I was little, "When I grow up, I'm going to have a cement yard!" Ha ha!

[wendylady1]

Mech,
Your garden looks amazing !! What a difference a few months makes - it only seems days ago that you were desperately waiting and waiting for the Spring to arrive,and now look at you ...

I love the orange day lilies and the beautiful purple spiky flowers which look like Veronica, but are possibly something different...and I also like your circular patio design too..

These photos make your garden look huge - is there actually loads and loads of acreage or am I just being taken in by the camera angles ?

The other thing is : How on earth are your beautiful great big Hostas pretty much slug-free when my Hostas are simply no more than a party-venue for them, even with the judicious use of vicious blue pellets...I love Hostas, especially the white-edged ones, but sadly the pesky slugs like them too !!

[mechtild]

That blue-purple spiky stuff is perennial sage. Here's a link about it: http://www.youcanlearnseries.com/Landscape/Plants/Salvia.aspx... )

[wendylady2]

Yes - your garden both front and back is way, way bigger than ours...I guess that's not too surprising, since we live in Ealing which is in West London - the houses in big cities are never blessed with much garden space, I'm afraid !!

Our season is much longer than yours, so we get more variety to play with I think, but the space is very tight...Spring bulbs under-planted with later-flowering perennials and any tiny spaces filled up with temporary annuals is the way forward ...

The arrangement of your front garden space is very similar to Adam's parent's front garden in Canada actually, except they have a side-walk in front of their lawn...they don't have a monster pet rock though !!

[mechtild]

Yes, Great Britain is blessed with a long, lovely growing season, except for the far north, I suppose, even though it is much further north in terms of latitude. Nothing like the Gulf Stream to moderate a climate

[shirebound]

I love your yard. It looks like it's celebrating summer.

[mechtild]

It is celebrating! And it had better make it snappy, growing here. :)