Through the Garden Gate--April

 The weather in April has been a mixture of heavy showers and sunshine. So it's been a case of making the most of those lovely sunny days and getting out into the garden or down the allotment.

We have been really busy, continuing to develop our new garden and I have been enjoying planting up new beds. It's lovely that we are starting to see more colour in the beds now. To think that when we moved into our house last June, the back garden was just grass. What a difference we can see now.

Richard is building a path around the lawn and although it is nowhere near finished yet we can see it is going to look really good and will be much easier for working on the borders.

We have been carefully watching the growth of all the shrubs and trees we planted in the autumn, hoping that they survived the cold weather. They are now all in bud which is a relief. The Amelanchier is the first to put on a show,  it is now full of blossom and is looking lovely.

Early in April I planted up the border at the side of the house, I want plants to tumble over onto the path. I have planted alchemilla mollis and lavender at the front to edge the path and lupins, sedum, campanula, monarda, salvia further back with grasses dotted about in between.

   

        

We love to sit at our garden table in the back garden having a break from our work with a cup of tea and from here we can  see how the borders are developing.

The colour at the moment in the borders is from the bergenia, cowslips, pulmonaria and Brunnera. In my containers there are violas and tulips. I can see buds on the hardy geraniums and alliums. In a week or two they will be bursting into life bringing more colour. There is so much to look forward to. 

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