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common_natureWe have had so few days when we can sit out and enjoy our garden this year having had such a poor Spring and early Summer.
However, today was one so I took the camera out.
We had a visitor:
This is our briar rose in full bloom. This is one of the wild hedgerow varieties such as you find on the field edges locally, not a cultivar.
The echinops have budded up and when they flower, the bees wil go crazy!
A hollyhock varietal which the bees are already harvesting:
Daisy family:
This is Mexican fleabane which makes such great ground cover!
The back bed although I'm afraid you've missed the pink hawthorn and the jasmin which have both already set. The fern is a variety which changes colour all year round:
The hostas are flowering up. They're not native here but they do make great ground cover and come again year after year. We have four varieties:
We call this the marmalade plant as we don't have a name for it. So colourful!
This is spiraea (sometimes called the lemon plant) with a decorative grass yet to blpom to the left:
The bay bush (lauris nobilis)has come on really well- I do love having my pot herbs to hand and by is a top favourite.
My herb bed. Here you can see rosemary, sage, dill and oregano and I also have apple mint,, chives, basil, thyme and pennyroyal (the last just for decoration as it's highly toxic). There are also several lavender varities.
However, today was one so I took the camera out.
We had a visitor:
This is our briar rose in full bloom. This is one of the wild hedgerow varieties such as you find on the field edges locally, not a cultivar.
The echinops have budded up and when they flower, the bees wil go crazy!
A hollyhock varietal which the bees are already harvesting:
Daisy family:
This is Mexican fleabane which makes such great ground cover!
The back bed although I'm afraid you've missed the pink hawthorn and the jasmin which have both already set. The fern is a variety which changes colour all year round:
The hostas are flowering up. They're not native here but they do make great ground cover and come again year after year. We have four varieties:
We call this the marmalade plant as we don't have a name for it. So colourful!
This is spiraea (sometimes called the lemon plant) with a decorative grass yet to blpom to the left:
The bay bush (lauris nobilis)has come on really well- I do love having my pot herbs to hand and by is a top favourite.
My herb bed. Here you can see rosemary, sage, dill and oregano and I also have apple mint,, chives, basil, thyme and pennyroyal (the last just for decoration as it's highly toxic). There are also several lavender varities.
