More colour

We finally managed to get around to buying some plants. Although the main garden is blooming magnificently this year, the front garden & the pots are looking rather sad.

For the front garden we’ve bought some perennials, two red, one yellow. Those should help to fill that garden with colour for this time of the year.

In the walled garden, I’m hoping to transfer some of the alliums from the front garden to under the holm oaks in the walled garden for some early summer colour there. In the pots, especially around the fuchsia I’m going to add a rim of dark blue lobelia. Both our fuchsias, both in pots, have not done well this year, though they do still have life. The one near the garage, in the back garden is just starting to flower, the one in the walled garden has still only put out a couple of leaves. It is with this one I intend to put the lobelia. They are short-rooted & seasonal so they shouldn’t deprive the fuchsia of food & water, but still give the pot some colour for this year. Hopefully the fuchsia will do better next year. Or maybe it will just die & we will replace it with something else. It’s a pity as that red & white fuchsia in previous years has really brightened that dark corner as it has been covered in flowers.

Then, when it comes to the pots by the garage, I intend to move some of the daffodil bulbs into the front garden for the spring – this year these daffs produced plenty of greenery but few buds & even fewer flowers that opened. In the pots above the remaining daffs I’m going to put some pelargoniums, one red & one frilly pink.

We’re late getting summer bedding in this year. Before we went on holiday we still had frosts here. Then, when we got home, we were far too busy with the Fox going into hospital & then his slow recovery, to find time to look for plants. It is only now we’re beginning to feel we have the energy & time to do things other than the bare essentials.