The garden

Our garden is moving on a stage. The trees are bursting into leaf, most green, some more copper. Fresh shoots emerge from the ground as lilies, irises, Solomon seals, appear.

New flowers are appearing. The camellias are in flower. I’m not very keen on the white one. Its flowers turn brown when they get wet, and here we get a lot of rain to wet them. At least that’s at the far end of the garden where it is not too noticeable. This year, though, there has been a couple of beautiful white rosettes hidden in the depths of the shrub.

I much prefer the pink camellia. That’s easily visible from the house & such a pretty shade of pink. More & more flowers seem to be opening up every day.

One of the raised beds, near the house & shed, is covered with mauve/blue prostrate rosemary. I think I almost prefer the prostrate form of rosemary. The stalks & leaves are less woody making it easier to use in cooking. That is unless you want to use the stalks as skewers for kebabs.

The perennial clematis is in flower on the fence. And on one of the pergolas, there’s another variety of clematis in flower. This one is bluey purple, with small flowers. As the season goes on it will be followed by a more prolific pinky white montana variety on another upright. The back posts are support for the wisteria which comes into flower even later.

Throughout the garden you keep coming across little patches of grape hyacinths, narcissi, cheerfulness. The hellebores are still nodding their heads.

 

Hellebores

The garden is really taking off now. Unfortunately, our lady gardener is unable to come, due to this virus. We’re doing our best to keep the lawn mowed & the odd weed extracted. She’s promised, when this coronavirus is over, to come more often if necessary to get the garden back into trim once more. For the moment at least it looks good. The birds are certainly enjoying it. They seem to be constantly running across the lawns, stopping for the odd worm en route. Butterflies & bees are abundant. With so many visitors the garden can’t be too bad, & it’s certainly giving us a lot of pleasure, the more so when I’m not allowed off the premises at the moment.