Spring borders and new life in the garden

Thank you for the beauiful pleasure of your garden Olive.

beautiful garden Olive, thanks for such a lovely blog

lovely Olive. I even managed to get in the garden weeding myself today. Lovely warm winds and light cloud. Perfect for gardening.

Hope mine will look as good as yours Olive.

Thank you Louisa, glad you enjoyed it :O)

Seaburngirl I am sure your garden will be just perfect. It was good to be outside for a change. I think we have all gone a little stir crazy this winter. Thank your for looking in :O)

Thank you Scotkat and thanks for updating us on the baby calf which survived against all the odds. They are such beautiful creatures those Highland Cattle. I love them. Hope you have a great week in Glamis without any more traumas. lol :O)

Beautiful again Barbara, finally some leaves are starting to appear on the plants now....I thought I would never see them again...seems so late...

Really lovely garden ! You must have enjoyed a sit outdoors .

Lovely garden Barbara, thanks for reminding me of what we've got to look forward too its been such a long winter, I managed to get a bit of seed sowing done this morning and nice to see the seeds I sowed last week poking through in the greenhouse, unlike you though we aren't shielded from the wind(as you know top of a hill) and while preparing veg for tea I looked up to see 2 panes of my greenhouse flying past the window into next doors plot lol, glad to say I rescued them and they're back in place, wind seems to have eased a bit now thank goodness.

lovely busy colourful borders and love the path - very natural - soon be back to full bloom again :)))

Its lovely Olive and doesn't it lift the mood when able to be outside even if only for a short while, we seem to have waited so long for that pleasure, patience is s'posed to be a virtue but gor blimey I'd lost mine the last few weeks.
Very windy today but we've had a lovely red sky so it looks promising, hope its the same for you....

Thank you so much for badly needed encouragement!

You're all so kind :O) glad you liked it, the wind has dropped here tonight, seems much calmer. We sat outside and had lunch in the sunshine. The daylight hours are getting longer and plants are growing by the day. Everything looks to be recovering from all the wet last year with the exception of a couple of Heucheras which I think I shall have to replace - but what a good way to spend some money, walking around the gc and finding them and maybe different ones too. lol :O) I hope Mr.Osborne keeps increasing my pension or I shall run out of money soon. lol :O)

All looking great. I see your plant supports are all in. Most of mine done, just a few more to go!
That late summer bed is a stunner!! Inspirational!

Lovely blog Mum! You reminded us all that it is no use being impatient. We can't rush nature. Your garden was incredible last autumn. My garden in Dundee was always at its best in spring, with all the Rhodys. This garden is best in summer I think, with all the roses and Clems. But every year it matures and changes, and that in itself is a joy...seeing it mature. I did consider lunch outdoors today, but the wind was a bit too fierce. However, I did buy two brand new sun loungers with my 20% off voucher at Dobbies, so lets hope we get to use them this year! The old ones got wet and rotted in all the rain last year! ;) x

Karen....you have just tempted fate!!!! Can't you take them back.....lol!

Fabulous blog, thanks Olive...As you know, i love your garden....What are the dark purple flowers in your late border please, the ones beside the Sedums?.......:>)

Lol...only a scot would say that Scottish! :)

Thank you all :O) I am so pleased you enjoyed the blog. I am not a very patient person myself especially when the weather is not good.

I do not take out the plant supports, I leave them in so that I do not have to trample over the borders more than once to tidy them over and because when they have worked and held the plant up I would never remember where they were LOL ;O) and they would never be in the right place again. lol :O)

I think the ones you are looking at Moti are the Asters which are a very dark pink/purple depending on which eye you use. lol I say pink others call it purple, my oh always calls dark pinks purples I call them dark pink we always disagree over shades of colours. lol. will try and look and see what the name is of the aster it is a shorter variety and is quite a useful plant just there in the border.

Karen think you are tempting fate just a little but I am sure we are going to get at least some sunshine this summer so you will get to use those loungers - eventually. lol The wind has dropped and it is bright and sunny this morning still no rain here.

sorry Moti, think you have asked before about these, the label is not with them. But they are a shorter variety and bush out nicely. Sorry I am hopeless with name tags.

Thanks so much for this blog after the disaster yesterday I was feeling really low but after reading this I,am thinking what the hell I still have my garden and will make the most of whats left of the seedlings
So thanks again Oliveoil

You are very welcome Irene, hope you soon get it all sorted out. Best wishes :O)

It's true....she isn't very patient! Lol ;)

Another lovely blog Barbara ! I love looking at your garden!
Thanks for saying what you did as I'm not very patient ! We still can't sit out yet as the last two days have been strong south westerlies which come straight at us and nearly knock you off your feet. Its also drying the borders out too much, but I won't complain as we don't want another wet summer, do we !

I love your garden, so natural and all those colours !!! Makes you just want to sit out there and enjoy just looking at it!

I agree. I always picture myself sitting at the table joining in one of Mum's BBQs!

Thanks everyone, yes a bbq would be nice, think we had one last year if that :O( My bbq's are not that spectacular Karen lol. although the company is good when we do get to have one. You would be very welcome. I have two bags of charcoal ready for burning!

Andreamaik thats what I like doing too, off out in moment with my coffee, have watered pots and planters so have been busy - deserve my coffee now :O)

Rose we do not want the water we had last year but I bet the allotments are drying out fast. I haven't even started to dig in my veggie patch yet, still got a sore knee. I shall get out there soon though sore knee or not cos I want to get some seeds in.

Isnt it great when all the right signs are there showing us that any time now all those new shoots will be bursting onward and full of colour as you have shown us in your photos.
As you remind us its well worth waiting for.

At least the winds have changed direction, recently OloveO.The winds throughout March were so cold?
Looking forward to seeing pictures of those lovely big borders in full bloom later on!

Thanks Stroller and Paul :O) Good that the Northerly wind has gone, that one bites through you :O) we are protected from the easterlies by the wood. Hope you are able to both get out into the gardens and enjoy some sunshine. :O)

The strong winds have dried out the ground so much , that in some parts it is cracking ! There's never a happy medium is there, Barbara !

very windy here Rose today, I popped over to Scunthorpe this morning and it rained but when I got back we had hardly had a wetting so I dragged out the hosepipe and watered for two hours. I had put some new plants in so it needed it. It looks better now. :O)

catching up Barbara and all looking tidy to, i love springtime and watching all come to life. all slow here with cold windy weather but getting nicer days now :o)

Thanks Olive....I love that border, my kinda colours...:>)

:O) thanks Sanbaz, hope you are feeling better now we are getting some sunshine to enjoy in the garden. :O)

You are welcome Moti. :O)