Greenway's Garden
May 19th 2008

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We have waited a long time for spring this year, but at last we had some warm weather
at the beginning of May & we seem to have gone straight into early summer.




Here at the bottom of the garden, in front of me, four raised beds and behind me an arch shaped lawn and mixed evergreen
 hedge, this area runs the width of the garden where I work potting plants in my old sheds etc.

The tall purple and pink are the evening scented Hesperis (Sweet Rocket) & native wild Red Campion - easy and spectacular together.

Sitting by the pond in the morning
sunshine, I enjoy the mixed scents
of the Choisya -Aztec Pearl and

the wonderfully scented

deciduous yellow Azalea.
 

This is looking down towards the bottom
of the garden through the area in which
I have my bonsai trees, that like me, prefer

shade for much of the summer.

The display tables are painted red

for effect

 

One side of the front garden facing East shows the wonderful Hawthorn blossom this year and despite the late frosts the plum tree is laden as usual, and the raspberries around the edge and under the tree are well advanced,

Much has already finished on the
rockery but there is always something
looking good. The 'rocks' are actually large
pieces of old hardcore & flint. But since most of the plants love the lime mixture of the concrete and aggregate, they cover them
anyway and always seem to do well
The well known yellow & red scented biennial wallflowers
planted last autumn are finishing, but the 
purple perennial wallflower Eryssimum 'Bowles Mauve'
will flower on and on often for a year or more, as the old
flower spikes are cut when the last flowers come to an end
and fresh ones grow - A superb, 'must have' plant
Still netted to keep the fish from becoming Heron food;
plenty of frog-spawn and newts this year again. And
the Lady's Smock, a native wild flower, almost finished

now, increases year by year. It is the food plant of the Orange-Tip Butterfly. (The female is just whitish)

And the best plants in the lean-to plant house on this date:

A three year old Regal Pelargonium, that was only  out of flower briefly

last autumn, when I took all the flower stems off and fed it. I love it every day as I see it from my work room window.

 

 

 

and ...one of two Epiphillums, this pink one I got from the Chelsea flower

show more than 10 years ago - the flowers only last about 2 days each,

but there are lots of  buds and flowers every year.
This is a year round  garden, not a one day show garden, there is always something to see.

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