My Garden this Summer

Hello Jenny pet! I've not been able to be on the site much myself lately, trouble with 'tinternet! I have seen you bounce on once or twice, for a quick comment, and fly off again!
Don't be fretting too much about your garden, it's looking grand, I just love your white lychnis, and I have LOADS of the shocking pink one too, it absolutely cuts the eyes out of your head, but it really makes a statement, not sure what...probably 'WHOOHOO! LOOK AT MEEEHEEE!!'
It's nice to break the rules sometimes too, don't worry if tall things are at the front of your border, you can always put lower plants beside them, but just go with the flow, & from what I can see it's going fabbily! (not a word!). Anyhoo, just take it a little bit at a time so you don't get disheartened, there's plenty of time yet, and you can't walk on your new grass for a good while yet, so just turn your attention somewhere else!
Your garden's looking really promising at the moment, because it's lovely already, but I can see it looking really stunning in the very near future!! Keep your chin up!!

love the white campion , (lychnis)..if you fancy doing a swap for some of my pink for your white let me know !! .....
gardens looking great !! well dun you ..................;0))))

Take heart Jennyfer, I'm sure most of us get behind at times in the garden I know I do! mine is looking very overgrown at the moment. The trouble is I have grown to many tall plants for my small borders, it looked fine a few years back but the perennials have grown to big and now need dividing. I'm thinking of completely changing the garden over the next couple of years as we will be having a conservatory put on the back. Hopefully next year I'm going to take out the side beds and have some raised beds built for rock and alpine plants, the middle bed will come out too and have a watter feature instead. It just depends if we have the pennies to spend, I have my fingers crossed. I love the forth Photo of the poppies it would make a lovely watercolor panting. Thank you your for your blog you can never have to many Photos they tell the story! :-)

Hi Jen

Your garden is flourishing well - and I see you have been putting some edging along one of your borders - this tidies things up such a lot doesn't it ? Like me though you still have a lot to do, but as everyone always tells me - a bit at a time and it will get done eventually.

Good luck with it all. I hope the new lawn grows well - it will look so different there when there is a good lawn.

Lol, thankyou Libet, and it is a bit of an eye-scorcher, isn't it?! :P
Cristina: Sure that sounds fine :) Would you rather seeds or a division? and when would it be best to divide it anyway, should I wait till the flowers have finished? I have some young ones i sowed this year that should be pink, so don't worry about that, unless you have anything else cottagey you can spare a bit of :P

Teds: In all the pictures I've ever seen of it, your garden always looks lovely! But its reassuring to know that it gets on top of other people too :P Good luck with your transformation plans! I hope you get the resources for it soon :)

And thanks Marie :) I haven't put that edging in yet, but I need to! Dad did it for me last year for the deep border, but we ran out of tiles, until he kindly bought me some more on ebay a few weeks back, but I haven't got round to sticking them in yet! I just laid them out to see if they would fit. I've had to keep hacking back the grass underneath with some hand shears, so I'll have to find time to stick them in soon! I can't wait for the new lawn either! and I guess we need to keep at it, and hack out a new patch from the wilderness bit at a time :P I hope your backs not been troubling you too much and that you've managed to make some progress :)

Hi Jen

You'll do it - just takes a bit of time, as I know only too well. Am gradually making some progress but not as fast as I'd like but I suppose every little bit helps doesn't it ?

Will send a PM when I have a moment.

Ah, I think I might owe you one :P Glad you're making progress, even if its a bit slow, its still moving forward :)

i will have a look and see ok .............

sure :) I've read that you can divide lychnis, but looked at the plants and they seem to still be just one rossette... if not, would some seeds be okay? The only worry is they might not come out white, so I'll have a proper look at the plants (and maybe the internet!) when I get back.