Summer's Not Over Yet (Part 3) - But It's Green And Calm In The...

Still looking very nice

You have some interesting plants there Louise and plenty of late colour. I prefer that sort of flower as opposed to the more 'blousey' ones. I haven't yet cut back my Lithdora as it looks so healthy, a bit late now maybe.

Some nice plants, quiet restful colours Louise :o)

Very nice Louise........

Lovely blog Louise, you have some lovely plants, bet the garden looks lovely.

lovely pictures, you have some beautiful plants in your garden. I particularly like the viburnam and the erodium.

Thanks folks :-)
Hywel, yes, it's exactly that ..... nice too to have somewhere that offers a different feel to the other/front garden.
Heron, it's nice to have that calmer feel to things, back there :-)

Lots of nice interesting plants there Louise, love the Pink and white Erodium ;0)

Nice photos Louise, I'm surprised you have Geranium 'Mavis Simpson' growing under shrubs, would only usually flower well in an open sunny location, and can rot off if damp throughout the winter.....my favorite hardy geranium, by the way :)

lovely plants. spotted a snail enjoying your creme brulee :o)

lovely feel to this garden louise. you are so right about having areas with a very different feel to them.
thanks for sharing.

I assume the heuchera "Creme Brulee" seeds freely? Some do ,some don't but from my experience the ptettier ones don't! I like the creme brulee though.

Looks great. The shrubs are wonderful.

Very pretty Louise, expert photography !!!

Did you spot the snail? pleased to see your heuchera doing so well after the problems you had, a lovely selection of plants.

Lovely plants out back Louise :-))

Thanks everyone :-)
I only spotted the b****y snail when i looked at the picture !!!!

Bluespruce, i didn't realise that about Mavis Simpson, she's in a north facing border too, it's light shade though ..... she seems to do very well under there - pure luck, obviously ;-)

Anchorman, none of my heucheras seem to seed freely and as Dottydaisy said - they used to be 'plagued' by caterpillars - i sprayed regularly with Provado early in the year and it paid off finally, after a couple of years of really bad caterpillar problems, they're gone :-)))))))))))))))))))

More beautiful photos Louise. :o))) Like yours, my back and front gardens are very different but the other way round. I love lots of colour in the back which I see most of but the front is mostly green and looks much the same all year.
I seem to have missed blog 2 somehow.........

lovely clear pics, great rockery plants..would be nice to see an "overall" pic of them in situ..
Now on to Blog 2..probly got the pics! Duh! Isnt it odd that some plants will make a fool of you...grow there? surely not! Well..
Ive planted two of the same side by side and one dies and one doesnt..done that quite a few times..

Oh, wow! Just terrific. I see that your Sisyrinchium -- a lovely colour -- are still in flower. Mine flowered ages ago, although there is one tiny little flower on one of them as a kind of last gasp. Thanks for a wonderful display.

Thanks Lily, Tetrarch and Kowhai :-)
Tetrarch, in my pictures there 'are' shots of the back garden, including the rockery, but it would mean you trawling through loads of pictures i'm afraid.
Kowhai, those sisyrinchium are EK Balls .... most of the sisyrinchiums seem to flower all through the summer, here.

yes Louise, been happily trolling....

still looking lovely louise ;o))

Thats a doozie of a Creme Brulee..when you get fed up with it....

Great blog Louise, you must have a really good camera :o)

How did I miss this blog? Sorry I'm late - I still enjoyed it, though, and as you're well aware, I love your Ugnis....I wish I could grow them, but it's your micro-climate again...:-((

Thanks girls :-)
Spritz, the ugni's do remarkably well don't they - considering they're hailed as so tender.

Yes. I daren't even think about trying to grow them - so I'll just admire yours. ;-)

Lovely blog Louise, I agree with Tetrach that it would be good idea, if, when taking close-ups we panned back so we could see the overall impression. I'll try that in future. I love your plants Louise, and how pretty the individual viburnum flowers are, great pic, and what a brilliant idea ....a sedum mat! How does it work soil and food wise, what do you have to do?

I bought this sedum mat from Enviromat.
As for the food etc ..... the sedums are growing in a medium which provides all its nutrients etc.
I don't water this, nor feed it. The mat is just laid ontop of the manhole cover and doesn't get touched - infact i've not done anything 'to' it since i put it there 4 years ago !
You can place these mats on top of sheds, rabbit hutches .... pretty much anything - vertical or horizontal !

Wow that's amazing, I'll have a look at them:-)

loving your sempervivum it looks so happy...you have some great plants...i think DD could rent thmselves out as a snail hunter...lol