Now due to an acute lack of money, the only way this garden is going to happen is by hard graft....by me and lots of begging of cuttings and transplanting of unwanted plants. I do have an occassional splurge on plants at the local nursery or hardware store (I feel a bit guilty afterwards....just can't help myself sometimes).
So on with the photos....
The hydrangeas are just starting, I love the big blue bobbing heads, can't wait until they are out....
I am so lucky that I have such a beautiful old Japanese maple, it really is the star of the garden. Luckily the lavenders are coping with the big wet, not sure how well they will go with the humidity that is already starting to grow this early in the season.
The new side beds have taken shape and I have started planting them out with perennials
I love the oak leaf hydrangeas, I have wanted some for a long time.
Unfortunately not everything is going well, my English elm has had some massive die back and I have just had to chop it back but I can see the die back is still travelling down the trunk like and insidious poison, I am afraid it is not long for this world. I have been trying to decide what to replant in its place.... maybe a jacaranda or maybe a magnolia.... we will have to see, I love them both
And I have started clearing the mound of fishbone ferns under the old liquid amber tree, I may grow more of the oak leaf hydrangeas under here or some cliveas. There is a little fly in the ointment here....
Yes.... a big tree trunk I have to dig out....sigh....it is a rubber tree, I may have to dig to China to get the roots all out..... Oh well that is for another day!!!
Oh- I wish I lived closer- I would fill your arms with plants and seeds and cuttings and rootings. Most gardeners are most happy to share with otheers. xo Diana
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