Through the Garden Gate -June 2024

We're still waiting for summer to arrive, although there have been some warmer spells there is still a lot of rain about.

The garden has looked lovely this month, we've  spent a lot of time just admiring it. Now there are summer flowers starting to bloom, Veronica, Astrantia, Astilbe, Alchemilla mollis Campanula to name a few. I've planted some Dahlias, I've not grown them before in this garden and I'm hoping for some good summer colour from them, buds are appearing now so it shouldn't be too long before they start to flower. 

There have been plenty of flowers for cutting and this should continue for quite a while. I love having flowers in the house and it's so much better if you've grown them yourself. 

The  'Gertrude Jekyll ' rose is clambering all over the archway.

I'm quite pleased with my container plants, the rain doesn't seem to have affected them.

My daughter Helen and family came for tea when it was Richard's birthday early in June and we sat in the garden. It was a lovely sunny afternoon although a little cool . But we had cardigans and blankets and were determined to make the most of being able to sit outside. We didn't eat outside but sat out before and after our tea.  I cut flowers for the garden table which looked lovely. 

Richard had spent the morning fixing up some festoon lights on the patio but as they were solar powered they didn't switch on until the family had just gone home at 10pm!

We've also done some https://ngs.org.uk/garden visits recently. It's nice to see other people's gardens, I often come home with a few ideas of things to do in my garden.

Last weekend we went to see our other daughter Sarah who lives in Bedfordshire. It was that really warm spell of weather when we all thought summer had arrived. We had a lovely weekend relaxing in the garden, walking her dog, having a barbecue. I took her some of the Hosta cuttings which I had potted up in May. There is a good garden centre near where she lives and as I still had a garden gift voucher left to spend from my birthday last October I was keen to go and spend it. I bought two lovely fern plants. I'm wanting to put some ferns in the shadier parts of my garden and these will do nicely along with one or two which I already have. I might grow them in pots or plant in the ground, not sure yet. At the moment they are lined up along the front wall of the house with some Hostas where it is shady.

I am linking this blog to Sarah's blog at 'Down by the Sea' for her monthly 'Through the Garden Gate' post.