My Little Garden 1st June 2024
Here we are on the first of June. How fast time flies in spring compared to the slow drudgery of winter. The garden is full of colour, and as small as it is, it fills me with joy every day.
I’m busy juggling jobs at the moment and determined that this will be my last year of design and planting projects. Someone asked me this week if I was hanging up my gardening gloves. That’s definitely not the case, but I don’t want to take on any new projects, and I’m looking forward to spending more time out and about with the camera. Just a few more weeks to finish various jobs off …..
We’ve had a very rainy week again here, so the evening slug hunts are ongoing, but I feel like they’ve done their worst now. Salvia and echinacea have been decimated, so I’ve given up on them for 2024. Thank goodness that the slimy ones don’t like astrantia nepeta, geraniums, or penstemon, or I would be struggling for summer colour.
Anyway, these are my six choices for the first day of June.
- Iris ‘Perry’s Blue’
At last, an iris that I can give a name to. Only one flower from a new purchase a few weeks ago, but I’m hoping for great things next year.
2. Peony ‘Bowl of Beauty’
I’d love to have more peonies, but in a small garden choices have to be made, and they take up lots of room. I have a phlox in front of it to carry on the pinkness.
3. Astrantia
Possibly ‘Star of Fire’, and I’m always happy to see this reliable perennial blooming from the end of May.
4. Purple and orange
The remains of Allium ‘Purple Sensation’ alongside my orange geum.
5. Blue and orange
Happily, the colour of the penstemon hangs around a little longer than the allium.
6. New rose
I’ve been dithering about this purchase for the best part of a year, but finally I cleared a space and bought myself Rosa ‘Tottering By Gently’ ". A David Austin rose, it was named in 2018 to celebrate the 25th anniversary year of Annie Tempest’s classic weekly cartoon depicting the everyday capers of Dicky and Daffy. I confess I fell in love with the rose before I’d heard of the cartoons, but I knew it was the right choice when I saw it planted it John Massey’s garden last summer.
Have a great weekend and thanks for reading.
