Garden update

When we came home one of the first things that struck me was how the garden had burgeoned in our absence.

As I looked over the garden wall when the taxi dropped us the first thing I saw was the brilliant red of the rhododendron in the front garden. Magnificent even though it was already past its best.

Out the back all the beds had filled out. For the first time since we re-landscaped the garden in 2014, the beds seems filled. The need to get extra plants to fill out the gaps seems superfluous. Indeed if the plants continue to grow as they are the next problem will be cutting some back to give others a chance to grow.

Deep red peonies peer over lanes of glorious lavender. On the other side of the garden tall white delphiniums tower. The roses are out. Thyme with red & white flowers or the more yellowy leaf of lemon thyme carpet one bed. In the far distance, under the silver birches, scarlet poppies & white ox-eyed daisies stand out amidst the meadow grasses. The apples are definitely fruit & already tending to make the branches bow they’re so heavy laden. The jasmine is turning one post of the nearest pergola into a column of sweetly scented green & white. Purple geraniums dance in the breeze. Now the mock orange is a bush of sweetly smelling whiteness beside the smaller pergola. The roses are out almost lost in the lush greenery around.

I’m also pleased to notice today the sparrows have discovered the prostrate rosemary is full of tasty insects, making an investigation fruitful.

With the Fox being so ill, I’ve not really had too much opportunity to venture around the garden. I’ve needed my energy to look after him & do the basics of feeding & watering us. I’m looking forward to a good explore now he’s so much better.

The only disappointing aspect are the pots that break up the rather boring concrete garage wall. They seem decidedly sad. Maybe now the Fox is doing better, I can spare some energy doing something about them, maybe buying some new plants to put in them. We’ll see.