In the last couple of weeks the garden has come on in leaps and bounds. Every day there seems to be another flower opened and everything has grown so big so quickly. I love May in the garden, the green of the grass and flower foliage is fresh and bright and the colours of the flowers as they emerge are really welcome. As I wander around the garden I am constantly shrieking with delight as I see another flower in bloom, sometimes one that I had forgotten I had planted last year or one which I thought I had lost because it didn't appear last year.
This week I am loving:
- a beautiful white aquilegia, I don't remember planting this, so I think it must have self seeded and it has done so in the right coloured border with the yellow, orange, white and blue colour scheme. Normally it's the pink ones which decide to muck up my colour scheme.
- a lovely pale blue veronica gentianoides which is dotted around the borders. I divide the clumps and plant around the garden, so it's all over but I love it.
- a white potentilla shrub which has put on a really good show so far this year
- two weigela shrubs one with variegated leaves, both have arching branches heavy with their beautiful pink blossom. I have some in a big vase on the sideboard.
- the smell of the lilacs. Their flowering period is quite short, but I enjoy them while they are here.
- my bench in the gravelled area. This is where I sit to relax and enjoy the sunshine, sometimes only for a few minutes to take a break from gardening or household chores. It's a scented area, there are lavenders behind the bench and aromatic herbs around it. I try to collect scented plants which will grow in containers for this area.
- some of the bits of 'junk' which I am collecting to decorate the garden with or use as plant containers
What are you loving about your garden this week?
