A little walk around the garden after the early morning rainstorm

Love your garden such a variety of plants.
Hope you enjoyed your cup of tea.
The weather here in Lincolnshire hasn't been very good today.
Best wishes
Marjorie

Oh Barbara, I just love your garden, so many plants and areas...I would love to lose myself in there. Absolutely beautiful! Well done!

Thank you Marjorie and Michaella, it is lovely to walk around especially when the sun is shining. Raining again now and I can hear rumbling in the background, hope we do not get a storm. I do not like thunder and lightening especially here with all these trees around us.

Cheer up - lightning is more likely to go for a tall tree than a low roof!
Your garden is so interesting, something new around every corner. How do you find time to do all that lawn edging?
I'm certainly ready for that cuppa now.

lol :O) Steragram, I know that is what worries me they are very close to the house and very tall. lol. it once struck the electricity pylon only 20 yds from the house. it sent out flashes like bonfire night. lol. very frightening and on another occasion it hit an oak tree and broke off a branch which fell off the tree, split it at the top and it never recovered, ah well what will be will be I suppose. It has stopped rumbling now and just raining fast.

Olive I could happily get lost in your garden you have so much to hold your interest, and at long last the roses are showing their faces. I just hope the storms that have been predicted don`t spoil them before we can take in their beauty.

Hi Stroller, I do get lost, when I get the opportunity. lol. I love being out there, even weeding doesn't bother me too much now, especially if I can manage to keep on top of it all. There is a lot to do to keep it tidy but I have now made the decision that a little and often is the way forward for me. As I have got older I have found that I need to do it little by little and not overdo it. I used to start in a morning have a short break and then carry on until tea time. Now I attack one border as and when I can. I find that I can keep going for many more days like that. The rain is helping it stay looking good as one of the biggest problems here is that it bakes hard in too much sunshine. Hope we do not get lots of storms like they have had in France. It will spoil all our gardens and we can live without the flooding some people had last year.

Nice one Mum...cracking geranium. And how did you get a cushion for your bench? Did you make it to fit? I still haven't been able to find anything to fit it really....but thinking about it, I might have a couple of big cushions in the loft that would do the job...off to look! :)

Oh Olive thats done me a power of good and the cuppa was very welcome, I always think your garden is lovely but I don't remember you giving a grand tour all the way around before, the photo's are lovely, you have so many hidden delights and like me you go for the busy look, doesn't leave room for many weeds and if a few manage to grow we can't see them therefore they can't bother us, lol..
We have been hearing the thunder rumbling around in the distance for the last three days, I'm alright with it myself but the dogs are not very keen, mind you if I lived near to the woods as you do then I think it would be a completely different matter, at least this week the temps have been more in keeping for the time of the year,( still turning cold at night though,) we started off this morning with glorious sunshine same as yesterday, even needed sunscreen, would you believe it !!!!! but it started raining mid-afternoon, had to switch the lights on at teatime as it turned very dark and stormy, still chucking it down with rain and our dogs are very agitated, just hoping that this isn't on the cards for yet another bad weekend, ironic really as I had to refill two of my waterbutts this morning, if this keeps up for much longer they'll overflow, thats sods law.......

Gorgeous garden, so much to see, thanks for the look round!

Still raining but stopped thundering now. I am not too bothered by the thunder it is the lightening that scares me it makes me jump. I feel sorry for the dogs they seem to hear it sooner than we do. Very dark here too Lincslass, hope that isn't it for summer. We had rain early this morning too, it stopped about 9.30 and then was fine until later on this afternoon and has been fairly non-stop since then. You are right about the weeds, the plants hide the weeds well,although I can see some grass seed heads poking up through the plants in the middle border. If I do not pull them out they will drop their seeds and I shall have more grass than plants next year. lol

You are welcome Louisa I enjoyed doing it whilst the rain was coming down. lol :O)

A really lovely garden loved everthing about it :o)

thank you so much Kidsgran, so pleased you enjoyed it. :O)

My bad spots are completely my own fault Olive as they are always below the birdfeeders, I find some weird and wonderful specimens in those areas, dread to think what would happen if I left those patches alone, I'd possibly get arrested for growing something a tad suspect....

As usual your garden is wonderful OO. I thoroughly enjoyed that stroll. Everything looks so lush, we need a wee bit of rain here.
Love that huge Hosta too. You have a very inviting garden.

You have a very beautiful and interesting garden. Thanks for showing us around.

Thank you all for coming on my walk with me. I am so pleased you enjoyed it all.

Karensue, I bought that cushion off line, although I went to The Range (don't know if you have that one in Scotland) and they had cushions which would fit your seat.

I know what you mean about the seed falling from the feeders Lincs, I too have that problem, in fact I have a plant growing at the moment no idea what it is, it looks like it has been planted but I cannot remember planting it. Think it must be something from the bird seed. We shall see eventually it will have a flower of some kind. No-one has yet named it for me. lol.

It is still raining here Scottish, supposed to be clearing up this morning and showers over the weekend. Doing so much good in the garden though, I am not complaining.

Digginfit, pleased you enjoyed your walk around, hope you are not too exhausted. lol thanks for looking in.

Oliveoil, what a beautiful garden you have! Thank you so much for allowing me to have a look around, I shall now be able to picture you in your garden, whenever the rain stops lol! I simply love your giant Hosta, aren't you clever growing such a fantastic specimen from seed? I am impressed :)

Thanks Waddy, pleased you could join me for the walk around the garden. I didn't grow the big one myself, just got some babies that are from the seed from it. It has a lovely flower, nearly white, hoping that the seedlings, which are growing well, come true to its parent. It is such a beautiful Hosta.

Well Olive I have taken your garden tour rather late in the evening lol but enjoyed every minute of your beautiful interesting garden, I love your pathways and so many beautiful plants on route, it must be very time comsuming and hard work to keep on top of everything, but I do apprectiate the inviting seat at the end, time for rest to take in al the lovely sights that I have seen and been by stimulated by along the way ;0))

Pleased you enjoyed the walk Pansy, been cold and wet this weekend, had a bit of sunshine Saturday, but the rest has been awful, very windy too. After saying that it is better for working in the garden when it is not too hot and all the rain has helped me pull out the weeds. Still lots more to do though. Thanks for looking in. :O)

I just love your garden it's looking fantastic!

thank you Nana d pleased you like it, hope you are well and enjoying your garden :O)

Stunning garden Olive. Am just about to pm you :o))

thanks Annella have replied many thanks. :O)

MOUTH DROPS OPEN, WOW!!!!

from jane.

lol :O) mind those flies then Jane, pleased you like it :O)
it was a blank canvas when I started on it about 21 years ago, just grass with tree stumps and gradually the grass has been removed (all by me) and I have added and planted everything little by little to get to my cottage garden. lol I hate cutting grass it had to go. lol still have a little bit more to chop out and plant up, but am trying to leave it for a while as my knee is playing me up. No plans were ever put down on paper, each winter I would think how and where I could change the garden and then set about altering it in the springtime. I often sit out there and look at it and think oh yes I could do that bit next. So pleased you enjoyed your walk around it.

oh i did enjoy the walk :) so delightful :) thank you.

from jane.

Bravissima! Stunning beauty!

Thank you Liasciubba pleased you like it :O)

The peace garden is very peaceful! And the front garden is very beatiful! I love your house and garden!

I have some weeding to do up there today in the peace garden, it is in need of attention. Have had to wait for the summer bulbs to show through so I know whereabouts I can put my big feet before I tackle it all. Pleased you like it Lia :O)

glad you found me Jent, it is nice to meet you, hope to look at your garden a little later on. :O)

Blimey, summer in Narnia!
Aslan, have a decko at this!
Watch the flowers, you great tatty floor rug.
Sorry 'bout that, Olive, but on the bright side they tell me manure is good for roses.
You clot, Aslan, I can't take you anywhere!
A phenomal change from the last time I saw your garden under a mantle of snow, innit? Lol.
Excellent blog, as usual, Olive.

Thanks Asian for the manure and thank you Mouldy for your comments good to hear from you. Hope your patch is still showing off for you. :O)

It's not too bad, ta! Lol.
Aslan's banned. Too many dogs, hereabouts, so I left him in your wardrobe. ;-)

lol, abandoned eh!! Poor Asian :O) I will give him a good home. lol :O)

He'll require half a cow a day & a sharp thwock to the muzzle or hindquarters with a rolled up newspaper, if he misbehaves.
Good luck! Lol.

lol :O)