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| Clematis 'Guernsey Cream' |
It seems like only a few weeks ago that I was looking at the garden and thinking how messy and unattractive it looked. The borders needed weeding and winter debris needed clearing away. That was Easter. But now here we are at the end of May and it's amazing how quickly everything has grown. The garden looks completely different. Plants have filled out and are jostling for space. The main thing is that it all looks so green and fresh.The colour at the moment is from aquilegias, mainly blue, but some pink, yellow euphorbias, more blue from bluebells, forget me not, brunnera and centurea. The lupins have lots of buds and will soon be in flower. The flowers that I am enjoying the most this week are the alliums which I bought at a plant sale a few weeks ago and are now in flower and towering above the other plants in the border.
I have a clematis which I love called 'Guernsey Cream'. I'm not good with clematis and this one took a few years to get established. It's a little bit squashed between two shrubs but it scrambles amongst them quite happily. My star plant is a peony which I found when I took on my allotment 2 years ago. It was growing in a pot and I recognised it by the leaves, I brought it home and planted it in the front garden. It has flowered for the first time this year and I am enjoying watching it gradually unfurl its petals.
