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Roundup for May 2019
May was a bit of a strange month weather wise. One minute nice and warm, the next chilly with just a bit of rain. We really haven’t had as much rain as we normally do and the garden certainly needs … Continue reading
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Tagged bog garden, candelabra primulas, hostas, rodgersias, zantedeschias
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Where have all the weeds gone?
Slowly but surely the weeds in the bog garden have gradually been pulled out. I’ve been so busy weeding in the garden that time for blogging has had to take a back seat. These days I can only manage short … Continue reading
Blooming June.
The flowers keep coming, in spite of all the weeds around them. At the moment I feel that I’m fighting a losing battle, but I’m sure that I’ll get there in the end. We had a spell of torrential rain … Continue reading
July GBFD. We need rain!
Rain keeps getting forecast, but it seems to miss us most of the time, we can see the rain clouds over Dartmoor, but they hardly ever reach our village! The garden is looking a bit dry in places, but we … Continue reading
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Tagged Acer, autumn tints, bog garden, contrasting foliage, hostas, july foliage, Verbascum, Yucca
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May has flown by. EOMV.
The woodland is much the same as last month, I’ve not got any more new planting done as I’ve been concentrating on trying to get the borders weeded in the main garden. With all the rain we have had, at … Continue reading
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Tagged astilbes, bog garden, bog plants, Ferns, hostas, iris, plants for wet, primulas, rodgersia, Zantedeschia aethiopica
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Rainbow for June and July
The bog garden, which is formed by an underground stream, certainly comes into it’s own at the beginning of June when flowers start bursting out along the length of the border. There are all the colours of the rainbow, red, … Continue reading
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Tagged alpicola, aurantiaca, bog garden, bulleesiana, candelabra primulas, Ferns, hostas, Inverewe, iris, meconopsisa, plants for damp soil, Postford White, primulas, rheum palmatum, Zantedeschia aethiopica
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Maybe one day…..
Maybe one day my bog garden will look as good, although on a much smaller scale, as the one we visited the other day at Marwood Hill Garden. The garden covers 20 acres altogether and contains 3 lakes with streamside … Continue reading
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Tagged astilbe, bog garden, candelabra primulas, hostas, primula viallii, rodgersias, stream planting
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Review of June’s rainbow
Looking back to the post reviewing March, where I was describing the work being done making a rainbow in the bog garden, click here, I thought I had better tell you how the planting was getting on in this review … Continue reading
Review of March.
By reviewing what we have done in the month, I can make sure that I am keeping up to date with what I had planned to do, or that is the idea! Hope it doesn’t go the way of New … Continue reading