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14:41:00 o'clock BST
Hearing James Blunt
Panic, wot me panic?
"Well, after two weeks away, what's the damage?", I hear you ask.
There have been disasters, but really what can you say? Watering by our son has kept alive plants the would otherwise have died. Of course, I could have done what I said I would and set up the famous holiday pot watering system. But I didn't, so the results are as they are.
The front garden is interesting: Verbena bonariensis going crazy (see photos). They are mostly self-sown seedlings in an area of grasses, intended to add summer interest to a section that comes into its own in the autumn. The Cleomi in the front are also looking good and ingeneral it is a riot of colour. "All good", as young David would say.
In the back there are lots of attractive things going on, together with a fair few suffering for lack of water. The Sunflowers are looking especially attractive and we cut some for the house. In pots, Cannas, which are basically water plants, hace survived well while my Banana plant grown from T&M seed has suffered badly: bit of TLC needed there.
A bed under the Cordyline australis is fine: Perovoskia, Ceanothus and Agapanthus providing a lovely blue understory to the palm. Not sure where the Jacob's Ladder went....Chantal's a bit upset about that as she started them off a few years ago from seed and they have done so well in the past.
An area of pink also: groundcover Rose Surrey and Indigofera in flower against the conservatory wall. Nerines starting to show signs of coming into growth near by.
In the veg garden lettuce planted before we went are beginning to heart up and bush Toms are turning colour. We picked leaves from bolted mini lettuce, broad beans and a yellow French bean variety. Sweetcorn is just starting to flower.
I had just managed to get our shelter belt clean before our holiday. By the time we returned the weeds were chest high: I spent my day off strimming them down again and will follow up with a rotavator shortly.
When we were in France we visited the gardens of the Chaumont Festival. If photos of this interest you, go to my "Gardener in France" web log.
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hell i hate gardening leave it to the wife she better at it than me, like worring i dont do that either she better at that too. sister in law thinks neighhood watch is the church clock
25/10/05 22:09