We have had an afternoon in the garden, bulking up the flower beds. I hoed a few weeds to death and Dh over turned the soil, which is growing bird seed underneath the bird feeders.
We have very sandy soil which dries out very quickly, so we've added some home grown compost and some bought top soil. This is my favourite flower bed, which is west facing and is in front of the side wall of our bungalow, so gets very hot. The antirrhinums are lovely and grown from seed.
And although this Johnson Blue geranium looks glorious, it was to have the vivid splash of orange crocosmia, but some little creepy crawly had eaten the buds before they fully opened!
But it has flourished and is spilling nicely over the patio, perhaps next year!
We did sit for a while and admire our handy work. Not bad for two oldies, a garden from scratch in three years.
Chrisxx
A lot of planning and hard work has paid off for you. Well done:-)
ReplyDeleteI need to head out and do some gardening myself this morning. Weeds knew I was away and had a grand time of it.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty!
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are beautiful! Our clematis did not do nearly as well as usual this year, but our crocosmia is flourishing! However, we have a bunny who has decided this is a good place to eat lunch which is not making Bob happy!
ReplyDeleteIt is just beautiful, Chris! I wonder if we have those blue geraniums over here? They are stunning. And the rose and clematis, so clever! I must do that next year. Right now, just trying to keep everything alive is a real challenge in this drought.
ReplyDeleteYes, you two have done very well with your garden. Kudos!
Amazing results in such a short time. I love looking at gardens so thank you
ReplyDeletefor sharing. The color of the blue flowers really impresses me. My favorite color
is blue but I have no blue flowers unfortunately. Have a nice cool evening looking for
Mr. Hedgehog and enjoy the blooms.
Your hard work has paid off.Great results.
ReplyDeleteBarbarax
Well done. It’s beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWell done ! Love sharing your garden and the sunshine. From cold rainy southern Australia
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are amazing. I especially like the Johnson's blue Geranium which I had years ago but sadly don't any more.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is lovely!
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are so beautiful, so colourful, and I really love the smell of honeysuckle.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is flourishing. How lovely.
ReplyDeleteYour garden does you both proud, Chris. It looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan