After the rain

Hi Linda, one thing about the weather being warm and wet, it makes everything look so lush, very colourful, Derek.

Your garden looks luscious.

You have a beautiful established garden Linda, thanks for sharing it....

what a lovely blog. lovely plants too. :o)

No sunshine in our garden today, Linda; just faint drizzle. Everything is very green!

Lovely dahlias. Do earwigs still like them?

I had a friend come for lunch and he called my garden overgrown. Cheek! I said it was lush. Good word Derek and Siris.
The garden is walled and over a hundred years old. I have had it for forty years and done a lot of planting, Dotty.
Thanks Seaburngirl.
We had rain today but I am hopeful for tomorrow.
No I don't get earwigs, Eirlys, but the slugs are a pest.

Hi Linda! What is the blue under the deep ponk anemone jap. Please? Lovely photos. You have such a lot crammed in there, its lovely and ever so lush.

I wonder why you don't get earwigs! I get loads but not like the last house where they were like an infestation! Apparently they love new houses, but our house here is old and we sstill get loads of them! Horrid things. I reallyy do not like wiggies! ;)

Lovely photos from your garden. You have some unusual plants.
The 1st photo looks very lush. I'd like to sit on that little bench for a while lol :)

It's a Gentian, Karen. It is a wonderful colour.
We don't seem to get earwigs in this garden but I remember my father having them in his.
I sit there when it isn't raining, Hywel, but we use the bench as a coffee table.

That's nice :)

:o)

I agree, your garden is "LUSH" not overgrown, Linda! LOL! ?

I particularly liked the stairway! Lovely!

I'd like to be able to grow Dahlias like yours on our balcony but when I tried, some years ago, (2 years in a row), they were converted into "Lace curtains" by the earwigs in spite of my trapping 100s every day & killing them! They seem to be a magnet for them & draw them from all over town! I had to give up after the 2nd year!

Thanks Balcony. I think lush. I spent the day cleaning the stairs. They get really slippy at times.
The Dahlias grow well here. I split them in the spring and repot them in new soil. They give me colour in late summer.

Karen and Balcony: I was watching a Nature programme once and the presenter commented that earwigs were good mothers!! Said that they eat other insects and pests and only resort to plants when that supply runs out.

I know of their good eating habits in regards to aphids but I didn't like them turning up in their 100s to eat my Dahlias! normally I have no trouble with them & leave them alone to get on with their lives.

Strangely enough though when 2 years ago I planted out some dwarf Dahlias they didn't touch them!

Glorious.

Thanks Stroller.

Definitely LUSH! I love the picture showing your steps, it just invites you to explore.

Thanks, Green Fingers. LUSH is such a good word. :o)