Some front garden pictures
By columbine
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Finally done some work and took pictures of the front. I’m afraid I’m ignoring the poor thing more and more this year…Can’t say I’m enjoying the work there, it’s straight on the road and on the side of a park so there’s always some traffic. We’ve also had to many cases of breaking in so I only work there when Mark is at home, so really just the weekends. Really takes the fun away if you have to worry about getting robbed while working in the garden. Watering is also a pain – I have to get the hose trough the house. Generally I just let it do what it wants to do, let many things self seed, with occasional watering/weeding/tiding up.
Nice thing was, when I finally got myself to do some work yesterday , an old guy that always go past us stopped to say how much he like seeing the garden with all it’s messy glory! :-)
The only Penstemon to survive the winter
Happy Oxalis
Annual Poppies just starting, always give great show
Achillea ‘Moonshine’, I like it with the blue Delphiniums
And last, Salvia nemorosa ‘Sensation Blue’, hope you enjoyed the pictures :-)
20 Jun, 2011
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It's very pretty. I like to see a jumble of plants all growing happily together. It looks more natural :o)
20 Jun, 2011
Proper cottage garden, that, very floriferous.
20 Jun, 2011
A lovely riot of colours as Bamboo says a proper cottage garden.
20 Jun, 2011
I agree with Stroller and Bamboo its a lovely front garden:)
20 Jun, 2011
I just joined here today...and I am currently trying to undo the structure of a garden to get some messy glory...just like yours...what an inspiration.
20 Jun, 2011
Welcome Lauraj - Happy Gardening with us all
20 Jun, 2011
I really like your front garden,Columbine..all your plants look happy to be snuggled up to each other..:o)
20 Jun, 2011
It may have been called 'messy glory' but I think it looks really pretty . . . .
20 Jun, 2011
I bet there is many passerbys that admire your pretty patch.
20 Jun, 2011
What a lovely front garden, Columbine :)
20 Jun, 2011
I think it should be called just plain glorious! A riot of gorgeous colour, people work for months to get a garden to look like that! It's fantastic!
20 Jun, 2011
Thank you all for your kind comments and welcome Lauraj :-) It's funny how it got that look onces I stopped trying... I leave thing to self seed, sort of plunk new plants in where I think they'll look ok or where I see a bare ground. Colour coordination certainly does not exist in there ;->>
It does get too messy at times - these pictures are after some series weeding and cutting back job!
Kfunsters I do get quite a few comments or see passerbys having a look, actually a couple on man walking by just did as I type this...
21 Jun, 2011
Are all these in flower now Columbine, or are some from last summer? Whatever...it looks lovely:-)
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It is full and pretty, like all the colours doing ok in there.
20 Jun, 2011