GARDENING/NATURE

Garden Project Started

Unwanted rampant plant

Photo by author

This is the flowerbed at the back wall of my garden. My seating area is here, we drink coffee or other types of drink here. I love the blues of the Nigella and the campanula that creeps up the wall. It’s not easily seen as the jasmine is in the way from this angle.

Photo by author

The area to the right was full of lovely blue flowering wild plants. Previously, it had just dotted itself around the garden and could be kept under control fairly easily. This year, to my dismay, it took over the area that now has reddish slabs laid over it. We pulled as much we could and cut the rest at ground level. Then M. laid the slabs over. I hoping that the roots will die away. If this works, I’m considering putting a small pond here. I took the photo before we tidied up.

Photo by author

This is back down by the table and seats. I spotted some lovely blue flowers trailing from the huge pot that my rambling rose is growing in. This photo has changed the color. On the right, you can see some of the rampant blue flower. We still need to deal with it at this end.

Photo by M.

I asked M. to take a photo of the gorgeous blue flowers that bloomed yesterday morning. He took a photo of them but also the whole lower end of the garden! He and his best friend did all the hard work. I’m so grateful, as he knows zero about gardening. Nor does his friend. They are on the left in the foreground. Beautiful delicate mid-blue flowers.

This week I took out my old wild strawberry plants and replenished the soil. Then I planted some new wild strawberry plants.

M. planted poppies (with instructions) on the left of the garden. I still have a couple of plants needing a home.

I should like thank Dennett for giving my gardening stories a home while Jane Frost (Jane Grows Garden Rooms) was moving. I daresay that I will use both publications in future.

If you would like to become a member to read lots of great articles, click on the link below. I will get a small commission. Become a member