Everyone (except me) is complaining about the rain, especially my Spanish rescue dog who shelters from the showers when we’re at the allotment!
I’m loving all the rain because I don’t have to water the allotment or my garden!
Here is my garden flower update which follows on from my article on passing the purple baton round the garden from one flower to another in a very slow, but beautiful relay race which starts with Allium Purple Sensation…
Next to take up the purple baton are the Irises – this variety is Matinata.
At the same time as the purple splendour of the irises we have all the roses and cerise purple peonies performing their merry display of beautiful perfection.
The peonies got a little battered by all the rain but they are hanging in there…
Can you ever have too many roses?
No, of course not! Although, one can easily overdo the pink as I’ve discovered…
Impulse purchasing every single one (say nothing, I know I’m supposed to be immune to such things as a professional… but come on – it’s roses!!) has caused me some issues…
Rose ‘Oh Wow’ lives up to its name!
It’s next to the delightful Gertrude Jekyll
Which in turn is next to Alexandre Girault. Which unfortunately does rather make for an overwhelming amount of pink and I hate to say it, but it looks a bit sickly with so many pink blooms, as scrumptious as they maybe, just too much all together…
The solution?
Obviously, I *had* to buy another rose to put in between!
Rhapsody in Blue (which isn’t anywhere near as blue as advertised but it does fade to a blueish violet), does the job of breaking up all that pink and it picks up well with the Sedum Purple Emperor & the Salvia East Friesland nearby.
And at the other end of the garden, the lavenders are just beginning to take up the purple blooming baton…
Still plenty of bloomin’ marvellous to come – there’s the drumstick alliums, Liatris, Perovskia and Asters, to name but a few, which I will show you in due course…
If you’d like to learn more, join me on a free online garden design class and I will demonstrate the following:
