I haven't been posting much lately, since I'm not doing much in the garden this year. I was just planting out a few things I grew from seed (a bit late I think...) and took a lot of photos that will have to serve as an update. Uploaded at random, here comes:
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This is quite impressive. A spider has been building an empire here on hazelnut branches,
some sort of trap and tunnel where she captures her prey. I leave her alone and after
a few months the structure gown larger and more complex. Spider is larger too! |
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From a few days ago, a tiny snail on a
Lark Ascending rose after the rain. |
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The Angelica I planted out last May has had an eventful few months. Basically it has
gotten munched into oblivion by slugs (aided and abetted by the constant rain). I tried to
save it by removing the mulch and replacing it by sand, but the one leaf left kept on getting
munched. A week ago I dug it out, gave it a good wash in case there were critters or eggs
lodged somewhere, and put it in a pot in the court. A week later, new vigorous leaves!
I put it in a very large pot and cut off the now leafless branches. |
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We got a few plants for the windowsill a few weeks ago. We went to a new garden centre
and truth be told it was very expensive... but these violets are superb. Lots of flowers all
the time and it has grown into a lush mass. We only got two due to the price and filled
the rest of the pots with balloon plants. |
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| Ishikura onions |
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| Grapes!! |
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| A tomato plant just popped up on top of the rubble pile, lol |
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| Balloon plant (platycodon) |
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The Bee Bar
Always frequented, they love this spontaneous
forest of borage, nasturtiums and some colza. |
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| Borago and nasturtium |
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| Bee on borago |
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I planted a few snapdragons, yarrows and catnip I had grown from seed.
I hope none of these is yum to slugs because then we're done. Also danger
might be coming from the roaming cats... |
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| Some more love-in-a-mist soon!! |
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| Savory flowers |
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| Lemon vervain is getting huge :D a little yellow though. |
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| Catnip |
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| Balsam herb flowers :) |
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I finally went back to the garden centre where I got his one and wrote down the
name: Salvia nemorosa "schneehügel". It always has flower spikes
attractive to small insects. |
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| Central bed |
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| Sweet peas |
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The pot with the honeysuckle fell, the bamboo broke, and I planted it where
the Angelica used to be. There was a huge ant's nest in it, that are now
apparently doing well underground. It took them an entire day to move
the eggs that fell out when I took the plant out of the pot, but they got the job done. |
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| Honeysuckle |
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| The largest apple in the tree |
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| Bumblebees love nasturtiums |
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| The first gladiolus! |
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| Gladiolus |
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| Freesia |
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| Among the grass, nasturtiums and lobelias |
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| Second flush of Lark Ascending |
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| Bit of a mess among the roses. Got a lot of cornflowers though. |
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After cutting the willow, the raspberry jungle is growing like crazy!
We got a few raspberries on last year's spindly canes (that's much more
than last year) so I am expecting a nice harvest next year. |
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| This nasturtium is an incredibly deep crimson impossible to photograph. |
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| Main bed. |
