June was spent mainly potting up plants in containers, weeding and deadheading. Everything has been growing so big. That must be a result of the home made compost I brought over from the allotment to mulch the beds with.
My sister in law who is a great dahlia grower gave me some Lilliput dahlias and I planted those out a couple of weeks ago in the back garden. They are a miniature dahlia with really tiny flowers.
At this time of year we like to go out and about visiting gardens and in the last few weeks we have been to RHS Harlow Carr, and an NGS garden. I love visiting other people's gardens. No matter what size the garden, large or small we always come back with ideas to use in our own garden.
We had a few days away in the Lake District near the end of June and everything seems to have grown even more while we were away. There has been quite a lot of rain recently which has brought plants on. The owner of the B&B we were staying at showed me round his garden. He is an enthusiastic rose grower and had an amazing number of roses. I was a bit envious as roses don't do well in our shady garden, although there is a yellow climbing rose in our front garden which is flowering well at the moment.
On the way back from our holiday we called at 'Cath's Garden plants', this is a plant nursery near Levens, within an old walled garden in the grounds of the Heaves Hotel and Cath is a Chelsea award winner. It has been on my list of places to visit for a while. It was pouring with rain when we visited, so not the best day to linger. I bought an Achillea 'Inca Gold' because of its orange flowers and I thought it would look good in my yellow/orange/blue bed.
I need to get out in the garden to do some weeding, deadheading and cutting back and then I might be able to find some space for my new plant.
I have joined with Sarah at 'Down by the Sea' for this monthly 'Through the garden gate' post.
