My Little Garden in Week 8 of Lockdown
It’s been a bit of a chilly week here ‘up north’ although the weather improved on Thursday and Friday just in time for a planting job. Armed with lots of lovely perennials from Bluebell Cottage Garden it was great to finish off the planting in a garden started last autumn. Anyway, more on this project in separate blog coming soon.
In my garden the tulips are all over now and the plants of early summer are starting to take over. There’s been a little bit of frost in the mornings and I inadvertently left a few cosmos seedlings outside one night. Fortunately, I think I got away with it, but maybe I shouldn’t have a glass of wine on a school night!
So what else has been happening in my little garden - here are my six on Saturday for this week.
1. Let’s start with the first rose to open this year. My grandaughters like to make perfume from the petals of this ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ but that’s not something they can do in my garden right now. Is a petal delivery to their respective houses allowed under our current lockdown rules?
2. This geranium is supposed to be a variety called Splish Splash which normally has white flowers with purple markings. Expect that mine doesn’t have any markings, so I don’t think it is. I shall be consulting an expert in these matters.
3. This lovely little geum has flowers which vary in colour from orange to peach as they mature. It’s extremely floriferous and unlike some of the geums, which have arching sprays of flowers, it is quite compact.
4. And it looks perfect with all the purples in the garden at the moment.
5. The first flowers on the primula beesiana have appeared and what a superb colour they are. They wait until the tulips are gone and up then pop to take over.
6. The seedheads of the Pulsatilla vulgaris are very fluffy and photogenic but they do make me think of a bad hair day, which in week 8 of lockdown is every day for me. I have taken to wearing my Australian bush hat when out gardening: I knew it would come in useful one day!
And that is my Six On Saturday for this week. I hope you’ve enjoyed a quick look at my garden highlights and for more ‘sixes’ take a look at the site of the creator of this weekly collection. His Six on Saturday is always an excellent read and there are many more photos and blogs on twitter under the hashtag #SixonSaturday
